by Christopher J. Ryan, AICP http://thelocalizer.blogspot.com
Buried in yesterday's Boston Globe online in the City Desk for Cambridge was a little gem of an article that talked about a cat fight between new urbanists, a movement espousing more compact, walkable urban form, and a newcomer called landscape urbanism, who claim to be more ecologically sophisticated and environmentally conscious and suggest that new urbanists have it all wrong by promoting urban density and buildings in close proximity, ubiquitous paving, etc. While I want to summarize these two warring factions in a little more detail below, I will give a heads up that both movements do not seem to understand the limits to growth that will make each of their models quaint relics of the petroleum fueled industrial economy.
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