Reply #8: When snow falls in Celebration. [View All]

[Bamboo]

New urbanism has been around for awhile in Florida,architect Andres Duany lives in Florida but in a traditional suburb which is ironic.Seaside has been around twenty years,seems like CNN received a blinding flash of the obvious.

There are sprawl developments in Florida that have new urban sections for the upscale,this is what every development will have for the rest of the town to overrun on the weekend like a theme park.There are also "village shopping centers" which are designed to look like the old main street but painted sienna-the real color of money.Seems like the shape and color pallet of new urbanism will get tilted up in new villages and without the high ideals of new urbanism.

Celebration Florida has the same real estate turnover as anywhere else so the theory that new urbanism creates the cornerstone for community is suspect.It is a walkable community which is beneficial to health but a blog by a resident shows them with the same body shape two years after joining.The sellout of New Urbanism into New Villages suits Americans who sing hymns on the weekend and sin the rest of the week.

http://www.slate.com/id/2113107/slideshow/2113258