New Urbanism

WHAT IS NEW URBANISM? New urbanism is a technique for designing our built environment and reforming it in such a way that it leads to a better standards of living for us and improve the quality of our life in the places we live. It primarily focuses on reducing the urban sprawl which arises because of the low rise development in some areas. New urbanism promotes the idea of high rise development in areas so that there can be a planned development and we could make the best use of land as far as possible. The high rise development is needed in areas where density is high. It is a modern way of living which leads the built environment to the creation of new cities, towns, villages depending upon the…

healthy and social community should be. With urban and rural elements, Serenbe’s biophilic designs should be incorporated into urban planning for an environment that promotes a sense of community and awareness to the world. As the New York Times defines it, Serenbe is “a utopian experiment in New Urbanism being molded out of red Georgia clay, about 30 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta” (Sack). The community started on a whim 25 years ago when the founder, Steve Nygren, purchased 60 acres of…

Both films have cookie cutter neighborhoods with each home looking identical to the one next to it. You had the bright green grass, white picket fence, and small home. As I explained earlier, the residents of Pleasantville also seemed perfect. In both films residents of both Pleasantville and Seahaven were continually seen smiling and waving happily. This cookie-cutter style of town portrayed in both films was believed to be what the future of America was headed towards. This principle was best…

He fails to address the realities of population growth, industry growth and that maybe people want large homes with larger plots of land. The thought that all of our society's ills can be cured by regaining the American town of the 1950s and 60’s is a gross overgeneralization. While realizing, the book is about city planning; I can't help but think there are other elements involved that no matter how close houses and businesses are together will still see a decline in society due to the…

The new movement, as a response to the widespread of the suburban development, has been in existence for the past decade. Palen (2015), explained “Urbanism is a social and behavioral response to living in certain places” (p. 9). According to The movement emerged in the United States as another option to the design of its predecessor. It is aimed to improve urban design through the use of many different principles. The principles and practices of the move: the movement promotes the creation and…

This pre-sprawl setup can be seen in urban cities from which the current sprawl arose from. Andres Duany offers his expert opinion during the final scenes of Radiant City by suggesting a “new urban smart growth” in order to fix the issues of sprawl, which necessitates suburban communities converting the area in front of their homes to buildings for rent or for places of business, and the building of affordable town homes and apartments on desolate parking lots where underachieving stores are…

21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot cater to the majority of the population because…

The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…