What is New Urbanism?
New Urbanism is a design movement that promotes the creation and restoration of compact, mixed-use communities. According to the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), New Urbanism is a growing movement that “recognizes walkable, human-scale neighborhoods as the building blocks of sustainable communities and regions.” New Urbanism communities are composed of the same components as conventional development but assembled in a more integrated fashion — like the best loved neighborhoods of the old urbanism, where residents could get to daily needs like the corner grocery, the barber shop, the dry cleaners, and the drug store without first getting in a car. Some 4,000 New Urbanism projects are built, under construction, or in various planning stages.
