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Title: The Urban Landscape


1
The Urban Landscape
  • Sprawl, gated communities, and New Urbanism

2
The Readings
  • How does the urban landscape affect peoples
    lives?

3
Gated Communities In Florida
  • In areas such as Tampa, Florida, where crime is a
    high-profile problem, gated communities account
    for four out of five home sales of 300,000 or
    more (Fischler 1998).

4
New Urbanism
  • Architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth
    Plater-Zyberk
  • Seaside, Florida (1981)
  • 1st New Urbanist Community
  • 19th century architecture
  • Every house had to have a front porch at least 8
    feet deep and half the width of the house
  • Usually 16 feet from the sidewalk
  • The average price of a house in 2001 was
    approximately 800,000
  • Outdoor amphitheatre, community chapel

5
New Urbanism
  • What are some of the key principles of New
    Urbanism?
  • How did Disney use New Urbanist principles in
    developing Celebration?

6
Celebration, FL
7
Celebration, FL Town Center
8
New Urbanism
  • What do you think are the major criticisms of New
    Urbanism?

9
New Urbanism
  • Is New Urbanism a solution to sprawl?
  • What might be some key factors in the success of
    a New Urbanist community?
  • And what do we mean by success?

10
What are your questions?
11
In-Class Exercise
  • Break up into groups
  • Make a list of what you would need to know about
    Longleaf to evaluate it as a New Urbanist
    community.
  • Really put some thought into this!
  • What would you want to observe, test, ask, etc?
  • Write each group members name on the list to
    turn in

12
Journal 3Due Tuesday, January 16
  • Journal Prompt 3 (Due Tues., Jan. 16)Explore
    the following two websites to learn more about
    New Urbanism and its critics.http//www.pbs.org/
    newshour/newurbanism/Make sure to check out
    Forum Ask the Expertshttp//www.alexmarshall.
    org/am_categoryPagesFolder/newUrbanism.htmThen
    write a journal entry about what you learned in
    terms of those who support New Urbanism and those
    who criticize it.  What do you think about New
    Urbanism as a solution to urban sprawl?
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