Seattle Times: It's time to return to a robust urbanism

[nxylas]

Columnist Neal Peirce writes it's time to return to robust urbanism, the relatively compact, more energy-efficient growth we once practiced in our cities and towns, but lost in our rush to build far-flung, auto-centric subdivisions and strip malls after World War II.

WASHINGTON — "Urbanism" isn't a word that races many people's motors. But think again. It might just be the key — not only to enrich community life but to achieve a safer energy future as well as efficient and livable metro regions, and to ensure our place in the larger world.

That's the case that famed New Urbanist architect Peter Calthorpe lays out in his book "Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change," just published by Island Press.

More at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2013808392_peirce02.html

[marmar]

1. D'accord

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