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Abstract： |
The New Urbanism movement in the U.S. was launched in the 1980s, with the aims to combat with urban sprawl, promote social diversity, and improve neighborhood interaction through traditional urban design elements such as street connectivity, land use mixture, high density, multiple transportation choices and affordable housing. We evaluate the New Urbanism by testing if the movement has brought changes it promised to the urban landscape by summarizing findings from a variety of research projects, and found that there is a lack of interaction between physically good urban form and socially good form: neighborhoods with traditional urban features are not necessarily socially diverse or affordable. |
