TIGRAN HAAS
Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban planning and design seek to understand and analyze the variety of forces - social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic - that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today - scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others - are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small - town urban forms: human - scale, pedestrian - friendly streets, a reinvioration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl.
This new volume, drawing on a conference at the Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm, Sweden, comprehensively examines New Urbanism today and specutes about its future.