The Urban Landscape

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The Urban Landscape

• Sprawl, gated communities, and New Urbanism

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The Readings

• How does the urban landscape affect peoples
  lives?

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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).

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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

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New Urbanism

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

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Celebration, FL
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Celebration, FL Town Center
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New Urbanism

• What do you think are the major criticisms of New
  Urbanism?

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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?

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What are your questions?
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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

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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?