New Urbanism: A Fashionable Housing Trend?

The Sun-Sentinel seems amazed that people would want to live in downtown and calls new urbanism a fashionable new housing trend.

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March 21, 2001, 12:00 PM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"No oversized home in a sprawling, soulless suburb for you. Home is a condo, townhome or apartment in the citys heart. Stores and restaurants are part of the development not blocks, or miles, away. Some folks even live directly above the shops, as people did decades ago.From Boston to Seattle, this nationwide trend is changing how people live. Throughout South Florida, several new chi-chi addresses are built in the New Urbanism style, and at least three other projects mixing apartments and businesses are planned near downtown Fort Lauderdale."

Thanks to Congress on the New Urbanism

FULL STORY: Downtown dwellers

Tuesday, March 20, 2001 in Sun-Sentinel

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