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This website is part of a network of sites devoted to promoting compact, walkable new
towns. Visit our main website which is full of information, news, web
links, books, and resources about creating livable communities and
smart growth.
NEW TOWNS are compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods that
are a pleasure to live in. Also known as new urbanism towns and
villages, these places are becoming more popular as people have had
enough of suburban traffic jams, and the lack of good urbanism.
New towns are places where everything you need is within walking
distance (shops, restaurants, movies, services), including nice public
squares to relax in and meet people.
In a walkable new town you
can live without a car, since the compact layout makes it easy to get
around on foot, bicycle, rollerblades, or by trains & light rail.
These compact towns are a drastic contrast to our sprawling suburbs
where everything is spread out, separated by uses, and connected only
by roads and highways. This makes a car an absolute necessity in
suburbia, and since everyone has to drive for every single trip they
make, we have constant, irritating traffic jams, all day long. Life in
a new town following the principles of urbanism is completely different - pedestrian oriented, and
offering a higher quality of life, and a friendlier, more pleasant
place to live.
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"Make
no small plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood, and probably
themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and
work, remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will never
die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting
itself with ever growing insistency." -Daniel Burnham
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