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New Urbanism: From Exception to Norm - The Evolution of a Global Movement (Editorial)
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Abstract This thematic issue explores the evolution of the New Urbanism, a normative planning and urban design movement that has contributed to development throughout the world. Against a dominant narrative that frames the movement as a straightforward application of principles that has yielded many versions... view more
This thematic issue explores the evolution of the New Urbanism, a normative planning and urban design movement that has contributed to development throughout the world. Against a dominant narrative that frames the movement as a straightforward application of principles that has yielded many versions of the same idea, this issue instead proposes an examination of New Urbanism as heterogeneous in practice, shaped through multiple contingent factors that spell variegated translations of core principles. The contributing authors investigate how variegated forms of New Urbanism emerge, interrogate why place-based contingencies lead to differentiation in practice, and explain why the movement continues to be represented as a universal phenomenon despite such on-the-ground complexities. Together, the articles in this thematic issue offer a powerful rebuttal to the idea that our understanding of the New Urbanism is somehow complete and provide original ideas and frameworks with which to reassess the movement’s complexity and understand its ongoing impact.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
built environment; heterogeneity; new urbanism; normative planning
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 384-387
Journal
Urban Planning, 5 (2020) 4
Issue topic
New Urbanism: From Exception to Norm - The Evolution of a Global Movement
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; reviewed