The result has been a thriving strip of urbanism in an otherwise-suburban part of town.
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The core areas of The Woodlands and Springwoods Village have been informed by the tenents of New Urbanism.
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Dr Susan Parham, head of urbanism at the University of Hertfordshire, will monitor the impact of hosting hives in a working environment.
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When White celebrated urban anonymity in his 1949 essay, "Here is New York, " urbanism was still a relatively new experience for most Americans.
This might appeal to some American mayors, but it is the kind of smart technology that degrades the culture of urbanism and our dignity.
It's unsurprising that the skyscraper holds such a fascination for contemporary artists, says David Van Zanten, a professor of architecture and urbanism at Northwestern University in Chicago's Evanston suburb.
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Rather, the emphasis is on the people and organizations who shaped then bastardized Prohibition by manipulating Presidents, Congresses and the public, and by fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment and fears of urbanism.
Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse.
Instead, they are looking for what Leinberger calls "walkable urbanism" -- both small communities and big cities characterized by efficient mass transit systems and high density developments enabling residents to walk virtually everywhere for everything -- from home to work to restaurants to movie theaters.
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The so-called New Urbanism movement emerged in the mid-90s and has been steadily gaining momentum, especially with rising energy costs, environmental concerns and health problems associated with what Leinberger calls "drivable suburbanism" -- a low-density built environment plan that emerged around the end of the World War II and has been the dominant design in the U.S. ever since.
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