Section outline

  • New Urbanism: Evaluating a Movement

    Updates in process.

    Jennifer Hurley

    jhurley@brynmawr.edu

    Office hours: Fridays 12:30-2 in OL220 or Zoom; other times by appointment

    Class: Fridays 2:10-4 in ROOM TBD

    This course will examine the theory and practice of New Urbanism, particularly in the context of North American planning and real estate development. We will consider:

    • the history and growth of the new urbanist movement;
    • significant new urbanist practitioners, plans, and development projects across the full range of new urbanist practice, including rural-urban; greenfield, infill, and redevelopment; and modernist and traditional architecture;
    • critiques of new urbanism; and
    • current trajectories of new urbanist work.

     

    Note about readings:

    All readings are available on Moodle except the following books which will be available for purchase at the BMC bookstore:

    Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. 2010. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, 2nd edition. New York: North Point Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Either edition of this text is fine.

    Congress for the New Urbanism and Emily Talen, Editor. 2013. Charter of the New Urbanism, Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Very important to get SECOND edition.

    Using selections that will be provided in PDF:

    Calthorpe, P. (2011). Urbanism in the age of climate change. Washington, DC: Island Press.

    Speck, J. (2012). Walkable city: How downtown can save America, one step at a time. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    Talen, E. (2008). Design for diversity: Exploring socially mixed neighborhoods. Oxford; Burlington, MA: Architectural Press.

    Note: Readings are listed in the recommended reading order. Readings highlighted with an asterisk are especially important.