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Beyond the Radiant Garden City Beautiful: Notes on the New Urbanism
Author(s) -
Rutheiser Charles
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/ciso.1997.9.1.117
Subject(s) - landscape urbanism , urbanism , ecological urbanism , new urbanism , realm , urban design , urban planning , architecture , pedestrian , architectural engineering , sustainability , aesthetics , sociology , civil engineering , environmental ethics , geography , visual arts , ecology , engineering , art , archaeology , philosophy , biology
The “New Urbanism” is a recent architectural and urban design movement that aspires to replace the sprawling, placeless metropolitan landscape with a denser and more integrated network of pedestrian–oriented communities characterized by revitalized public realms, ecological sustainability, and diversity of uses and users. Despite these commendable goals, the New Urbanism's selective rendering of the history of urban planning, its barely latent physical determinism, its superficial gloss on ecology, and its highly selective and exclusionary notions of community and the public realm render the principles and practices of the movement's proponents highly problematic. [Urbanism, architecture, planning, U.S.]