But thanks to increased interest from buyers and less resistance from village governments, developers are constructing more new-urbanism-style homes in the burbs. “Millennials and boomers are demanding it,” explains Drew Williams-Clark, principal planner at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. — chicagomag.com
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What does it look like? Is it good Architecture?
what the flying fuck is a "New urbanism style home?"
There really isn't a "new urbanism style home". There are NU developments in all sorts of styles, froze regional traditional to modernist. The Congress for New Urbanism is studiously style-agnostic. The scholarship, and the resulting techniques that define the NU are about analyzing cities, and strategies for creating humane urbanism, and methods for code building... not about the style of the buildings. The author's focus on "new urbanism style homes" is a bit of a category error.
I think this is the one in Northbrook, Illionois:
EKE, I don't think its really a category error. Because ultimately style takes on a life of its own. It takes shape and evolves over the course of hundreds of projects by similarly minded architects and clients. The CNU doesn't really have a say in the matter.
What I'm saying is this: what defines the NU philosophically has nothing to do with style. Individual projects have their own unique styles, which is typically coded for. But what differentiates it from other urban design approaches, the underlying principles of the NU, are style-neutral.
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