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Congress for the New Urbanism Meets in NYC

NEW YORK CITY-The ninth annual Congress for the New Urbanism convened today at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. The group is devoted to preserving and maintaining urban centers as "great human habitats.

By Betsy Kraat | Updated on June 07, 2001

NEW YORK CITY-”These sort of conventions get the local community to think about its own placement,” said attorney Jonathan Rose at CNU’s press luncheon yesterday (June 7) afternoon. “New York City has much to gain from New Urbanism, and New Urbanism has much to learn from New York City.”

New Urbanist experts hold New York City up as a fine example of the diversity and vitality added by high population density, a concept which many developers and residents cannot fathom. The city’s weak points are poor planning due to fragmentation and lack of space and planning boards more concerned with the approvals process than the overall effects of their efforts.

“Something has happened in the United States over the last few years,” said Andres Duany, architect and planner with Duany Plater-Zyberk &Co. “The term ‘growth’ has acquired a negative connotation. Developers are encountering friction–people are categorically against growth. Although the concept of smart growth has taken off in the popular imagination, it has been dumbed down to fit on a bumper sticker.” Duany went on to say that the two majorly hyped tenets of smart growth–keep growth in urban boundaries and along transit lines–are overly simplistic. “An enormous number of well intentioned people will sacrifice their political lives for something that’s untenable.”

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