Report
1996
Charter of the New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism
Sets out the movement's founding principles, arguing that walkable neighbourhoods, mixed use and regional planning should replace sprawl as the default pattern of American development.
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- TOD StandardInstitute for Transportation and Development Policy, 2017Sets eight measurable criteria — walk, cycle, connect, transit, mix, densify, compact and shift — that a neighbourhood must meet to count as genuinely transit-oriented, rather than simply being located near a station.
- Order without Design: How Markets Shape CitiesAlain Bertaud, 2018Argues cities are essentially labour markets shaped by land price and commuting distance, and that planners who ignore this market logic, through rigid zoning or height limits, produce worse outcomes than markets left to allocate density themselves.
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