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New report demonstrates premium from walkable mixed use, mixed income development
Submitted by HDittmar on Wed, 07/25/2007 - 1:53pm23rd July 2007 — Press Release
A new report, Valuing Sustainable Urbanism, suggests that the government’s target of 3 million news homes by 2020 need not result in sprawl and environmental damage if we build walkable, mixed use, mixed income developments instead of car-dependent housing estate... read more »
Shifts in Consumer Preferences Help New Urbanism Weather Real Estate Storm
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 10:40pmA new Gfk Roper study shows Americans developing especially positive attitudes toward New Urbanism and neighborhoods where people live near each other (New Urbanism phrased another way).
Judging from a report in the Denver Post, this study is a keeper. Here are a few quotes:
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Denver Newspaper Readers to Libertarian: You Don't Speak for Us When You Champion Sprawl
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 6:52amReaders delivered a reality check this weekend to Jennifer Lang of the Independence Institute after she penned an op-ed piece in the Rocky Mountain News that trotted out the kind of anti-urbanist canards that get pro-sprawl Libertarians and their principles twisted up in knots. A number of readers w... read more »