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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.
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No REQUIRED readings
Optional reading:
Stilgoe

Class overview
What do we know about NU?
Introductions - our context
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Required Reading:

1)     Historical trajectory of ideas about urban development: Qadeer 2012, 207-232

2)     Sprawl and New Urbanism: Dutton 2000, 11-27

3)     Sprawl, New Urbanism, CNU Charter: Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, 2000, ix-37, 257-265*

4)     Overview of new urbanism: Fishman 2012, 65-90* PERUSALL

5)    Critiques of New Urbanism: Ellis 2002, 261-292*
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Required Reading:

Urbanism vs Anti-Urbanism: Talen, ch 3, 37-68* PERUSALL

Duany - Technical Introduction to Transect Urbanism*

Duany and Brain - Transect Urbanism: Post Suburban Planning
Modernism, Le Corbusier, the Death of the Street: Holston 1989, 31-58, 101-144

CNU Charter of the New Urbanism*

Optional:

Le Corbusier 1987 [1929], 163-247, 277-289

Review CNU website: http://www.cnu.org/
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Student Presentations: Case Introductions

Reading:

Perrott 2020 Does New Urbanism Just Show Up? Markham Case Study PERUSALL

Optional: Andres Duany, 1991 (watch lecture on youtube, parts 1-9 – start at
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Optional: Williamson and Dunham-Jones, 2021 - Case studies in retrofitting suburbia
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Reading:

9)     Regional Planning: Seltzer and Carbonell 2011, 1-16*

10)     Planned Communities & Regionalism: Talen, ch 6 & 7, 158 – 250* PERUSALL

11)     Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, 2000, ch 8, 135-151. Portion of Ch 10, 183-187 BOOK

12)    Charter Book: Calthorpe, 17-22, Yaro, Benfield, Arendt, Grimshaw, 27-53, Morris 57-61, Bothwell 67-69, Poticha 73-77, Arrington 83-87, Orfield, Daigle 91-95* BOOK

Optional:

Review Seven50 website: http://seven50.org/

Seven50 video:

Payton, 2013, Metropolis versus the City
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Reading:

13)     Farr 2008 pp 125-131 PERUSALL

14)     Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, 2000, remainder of Ch 10, 187-214 BOOK

15)     Charter Book: Murrain, 62-64, Barnett, Sorlien, Plater-Zyberk 99-104, Kulash 117-121, Volk and Zimmerman 125-129, Norquist, Dunham-Jones and Williamson, Lieberman 137-149, Moule, Norris, Lennertz and Ferrell 153-165, Comitta 171-174, Solomon, Tachieva, Polyzoides, Thadani, Gindroz, Hiss, Farr 181-207, Dover 211-216, Duany Bess Schimmenti 231-243, Greenberg Blackson 247-251 BOOK

Optional:

Duany and Brain 2005, 141-166 (on the rural to urban transect)

Scheer 2001, 1-17 (on layers of urban form)

Moughtin 2003, Ch 8 “Visual Analysis,” pp. 209-232 (on urban form analysis)

Whyte 1980, 10-101 (on public space)

Gehl 2006, 29-47 (on retail design)

Newman 1973, 1-101 (on defensible space)

Perry 1929, 54-65 (the neighborhood unit)
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Everyone: REQUIRED BY 3/8: Moodle blog with 1-3 questions you have for Mike Watkins

Readings:

NO PERUSALL

1)      Katz, Kentlands

32)     Kentlands Maps & Aerials

33)     Kentlands News Articles

34)     Kentlands Walking Tour Guide

35)     Eppli and TU, 1997, Valuing the New Urbanism

36)     Tu and Eppli, 2001, Empirical Examination of TND

37)     Kentlands wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentlands,_Gaithersburg,_Maryland

Kentlands and Lakelands in Gaithersburb MD overhead & street view video:
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Select section Wk 8 - 3/21 - New Urbanism: Environmentalism

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Wk 8 - 3/21 - New Urbanism: Environmentalism
Class facilitation: Eleanor Henderson, Francesca Marrapodi, Stephanie Wang, Sabrina Gray

Student Presentations:

Ellie Thomas Columbia Pike

Daniel Bhatti Douglas Rd. TOD

Pendo Kamau Seaside

Stephanie Wang Le Plessis-Robinson

Readings

20)     Charter Book: Condon, 23-25, Low 175-177, Mouzon 244-245, Krier 259-262 BOOK

21)     Calthorpe 2011 pp 106-117* PERUSALL

22)     Farr 2008 pp 18-61

23)     Kelbaugh 2013, 57-86

PLACE Initiative website: Urbanism and Climate Change https://placeinitiative.org/climate-change-urbanism/

Optional:

Mehaffy, M. W., & Haas, T. (2020). New Urbanism in the New Urban Agenda: Threads of an unfinished reformation. Urban Planning, 5(4), 441-452.

Farr lecture on Sustainable Urbanism

Frank, L. D., Sallis, J. F., Conway, T. L., Chapman, J. E., Saelens, B. E., & Bachman, W. (2006). Many pathways from land use to health: associations between neighborhood walkability and active transportation, body mass index, and air quality. Journal of the American planning Association, 72(1), 75-87.

Aurbach. Dense and Beautiful Stormwater Management. https://pedshed.net/documents/Dense_and_Beautiful_Stormwater_Management.pdf
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Select section Wk 10 - 4/4 - New Urbanism: Equity & Affordability

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Class facilitation: Luka Bati, Caroline Robertson, Ellie Thomas

Student Case Evaluation Presentations:

Luka Bati Iberville Ofsites

Miles Colescot Mueller ATX

Eleanor Henderson Rosemary Beach

Francesca Marrapodi New Town St. Charles

Emma Adelman Diggs Town

Readings:

Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, 2000, ch 3, 39-57, ch 7, 115-137 BOOK

Charter Book: Talen, Richmond, 78-81, Longo, Weiss, Goffman 130-135 BOOK

Talen 2010*

Parolek 2020

Talen 2008, 1-47, 109-192 BOOK

Optional:

Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) Housing + Transportation Affordability Index (explore maps for a place you know):

http://htaindex.cnt.org/map/

CNT Losing Ground report: http://www.cnt.org/sites/default/files/publications/CNT_LosingGround.pdf

Massey 2012 Financial Regulation of Housing Market

Principles of Inner City Neighborhood Design - HOPE VI https://www.huduser.gov/portal//Publications/pdf/principles.pdf

Incremental Development Alliance website: https://www.incrementaldevelopment.org/
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Class facilitation: Miles Colescott, Keon Parsa

Student Case Evaluation Presentations:

Maya Plimack Cotton District

Grace Roebuck MLK Plaza

Caroline Robertson Del Mar Station

Sabrina Gray Serenbe

Keon Parsa The Wharf

Readings:

Strong Towns blog: What Makes a Place Walkable? https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/6/what-makes-walkability?rq=walkable

Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, 2000, ch 4 & 5, 59-97 BOOK

Charter Book: Hall 88-89, Moudon 122-123, Aurbach 208-209, Massengale 217-219, Kelbaugh 221-227

Speck 2012, 1-72* PERUSALL

Massengale & Dover, 2014, Street Design, pp. 1-47

Dover Kohl, 2020, June 8. Walkable Streets: The Five Must-Haves (2:30 min)

Vox. 2017, Jul 19. The high cost of free parking (6:30 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3VrwK3OWJ5wnzb65FdT4Q7p36KQMlkchuzIrggjTaSKxtYvhxiqQu60Wc&v=Akm7ik-H_7U&feature=youtu.be

Optional:

Jeff Speck TEDTalk on the Walkable City:

Moughtin 2003, 127-169 (on streets as urban design)

Appleyard et al 1972, 84-101 (on livable streets)

Baker 2006, 1-2 (on behavioral psychology and urban design)

Chattanooga Design Studio. 2019, Mar 26. Victor Dover: The Art of Street Design (1 hr 23 min)

ITE 2010 Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares

Walk time analysis map via ArcGIS Online

NACTO Urban Street Design Guide website: http://nacto.org/usdg/
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Class facilitation: Pendo Kamau, Maya Plimack

Readings:

27)     Rationales for Planning: Brooks 2002, 50-60*

28)     Tragedy of the Commons: Hardin 1968 pp 1-11*

29)     Planning Process: Ford 1990, 1-52* PERUSALL

30)     On Developers: Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, 2000. Ch 6, pp. 99-114 BOOK

31)     Codes: Dutton 2000, 69-85

Optional:

Weiss 1987, 17-106 (on real estate industry, planning, zoning)

Rybczynski 2007 (on development process)

Ezra Klein podcast on regulations
- Select activity 27) Rationales for Planning: Brooks 2002, 50-60*
  
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- Select activity 28) Tragedy of the Commons: Hardin 1968 pp 1-11*
  
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- Select activity 29) Planning Process: Ford 1990, 1-52*
  
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The Center City walking tour for 360 has been scheduled for Saturday, 4/27. Please meet at the Starbucks at 901 Market Street about noon (there's a regional rail train that leaves Bryn Mawr at 11:15am and arrives at Jefferson Station at 11:48). We'll walk from there through the Independence Mall area, some of the Society Hill urban renewal stuff, and then through Wash West over to the MLK Plaza project. Along the way we'll talk about all of the urban design concepts we've discussed in class this semester. I expect we'll finish about 3, but it will depend some on how fast we walk and how much we stop to talk. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Class facilitation: Daniel Bhatti, Emma Adelman, Grace Roebuck

Readings:

NO PERUSALL

Garde, A. (2020). New Urbanism: Past, present, and future. Urban Planning, 5(4), 453-463.*

FBC, Charrette: Charter Book: Borys, Hurley 166-169, Lydon 150-151 BOOK*

Future of NU: Talen 2005, ch 9, 274 – 290

Accomplishments/Future of NU: Charter Book: Barnett, Duany 1-13, Calthorpe 253-257, Preston, 54-55, Steuteville 114-115* BOOK

Optional:

CODES

Codes: Dutton 2000, 69-85

Burdette 2004, 1-81

Local Government Commission, 1-8

CNU/AARP Enabling Better Places codes document: https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/livable-communities/tool-kits-resources/2020/AARP-CNU-EnablingBetterPlaces121520-singles.pdf

CNU20 Solomon & Duany lectures on codes

The Codes Project website: http://codesproject.asu.edu/

CHARRETTE:

National Charrette Institute website: https://www.canr.msu.edu/nci/

TACTICAL URBANISM:

Tactical Urbanism, vol 2

SUBURBAN RETROFIT:

Dunham-Jones, E. (2005). Suburban Retrofits, Demographics, and Sustainability [Retrofitting Suburbia]. Places, 17(2). https://escholarship.org/content/qt7758q0hf/qt7758q0hf.pdf

Tachieva, G. 2012. Transect for Sprawl Repair. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/TCC-Special-Edition---Transect-for-Sprawl-Repair.html?soid=1103584053200&aid=NAA8D92NnIY

INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT:

Incremental Development Alliance: https://www.incrementaldevelopment.org/

EVALUATING NEW URBANISM:

Litman, T. (2017). Evaluating criticism of smart growth. Victoria Transport Policy Institute.
- Select activity Whiteboard for Today's Class: Practice Innovations & the Future of New Urbanism
  
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- Select activity 39) Codes: Dutton 2000, 69-85
  
  39) Codes: Dutton 2000, 69-85 File
- Select activity 40) Local Government Commission, 1-8
  
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- Select activity 42) Tactical Urbanism, vol 2 (SKIM)
  
  42) Tactical Urbanism, vol 2 (SKIM) File
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Ellie Thomas	Columbia Pike
Daniel Bhatti	Douglas Rd. TOD
Pendo Kamau	Seaside
Stephanie Wang	Le Plessis-Robinson

Luka Bati	Iberville Ofsites
Miles Colescot	Mueller ATX
Eleanor Henderson	Rosemary Beach
Francesca Marrapodi	New Town St. Charles
Emma Adelman	Diggs Town

Maya Plimack	Cotton District
Grace Roebuck	MLK Plaza
Caroline Robertson	Del Mar Station
Sabrina Gray	Serenbe
Keon Parsa	The Wharf

Section outline

New Urbanism: Evaluating a Movement

Updates in process.

Required Reading:

Optional: