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Congress for the New Urbanism - New Urbanism is an urban design movement that burst onto the scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. New Urbanists aim to reform all aspects of real estate development.

New Urbanism - New urbanism is an urban design movement that became very popular beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s.

New Urbanism/temp - The New Urbanism in the United States seems to split into two different factions. On the East Coast, Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk emphasise the historicistic design of houses and developments.

Mission Habitat - Mision Hábitat ("Mission Habitat") is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that has as its goal the construction of thousands of new housing units for the poor. The program also seeks to develop agreeable and integrated housing zones that make available a full range of social services — from education to healthcare — which likens its vision to that of New Urbanism.


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New Urbanism Resource Site - New Urbanist projects, people prominent in New Urbanism, and articles and books about New Urbanism.

Center for Urban Studies - The Center for Urban Inquiry interrogates the unique features of the new urban West, particularly the intersections of new forces of growth and development with patterns of exclusion and inclusion, of maldistribution and redistribution. It harnesses the unique resources of the ...

Life in the Model City: Stories of Urban Renewal in New Haven - An oral history-based exhibit about urban renewal in Connecticut during the 1950s and 1960s, produced by the New Haven Oral History Project at Yale University.

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Urban Poverty -   Urban Poverty Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation by Sue Jones, This book takes a new look at the urban poverty debate at a time when there is renewed interest in urban poverty ...

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Urban Poverty -   Urban Poverty Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation by Sue Jones, This book takes a new look at the urban poverty debate at a time when there is renewed interest in urban poverty ...

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