The New Urbanism:
Toward Architecture of Community

The proponents of this New Urbanism, including Peter Calthorpe, Andres Duany, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, have examined the most successful towns and cities in America—places that are comfortable, foster community well-being, and have a good feel to them—and tried to understand what makes them work. As defined in an essay by Todd Bressi, these are places like Boston’s Back Bay, downtown Charleston, Seattle’s Capitol Hill, and Philadelphia’s Germantown. Through this examination, New Urbanists have developed design parameters and prescriptive guidelines for creating new or infill towns and neighborhoods that engender a sense of community.

Included among the principles or elements of New Urbanism, as outlined in The New Urbanism, are the following:

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