New Urbanism

Here is a comment regarding my blog of a new concept of town planning.

The concept you talked about is very similar to a movement in the early 1980s called "New Urbanism". New Urbanist neighborhoods are designed to contain a diverse range of housing and jobs, and to be walkable.

The main features of New Urbanism include:

1. Walkable. Most of the dwellings are within a five-minute walk of the center, an average of roughly 2,000 feet.
2. Diverse landuse. i.e. housing, offices etc.
3. Traditional "neighbourhood" design.

For more more this concept, read this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism#Old_and_new_urbanism)

The ideas for "New Urbanism" arose from an earlier movement called the "Garden City Movement" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement)