New Urbanists Point the Way Forward: Perhaps the New Urbanists should cherish their outsider status. A gifted crew of architects and planners, they have changed the conversation about urban planning in the United States. They reject conventional postwar developers’ essentially quantitative, two-dimensional, single-use-oriented blueprints for residential subdivisions and office parks in favor of a qualitative, three-dimensional, mixed-use approach to designing neighborhoods and towns that generally involves reliance on traditional architectural styles. [City Journal]
A grand park plan? Not really: The park’s 16-acre site poses all sorts of infrastructural and topographical challenges. It is also a terrible spot for a self-consciously “central” and “civic” park — even in a city where those terms can be defined in fluid and nontraditional ways. [LA Times]
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