Sustainable Designs, Products and Practices Make New Urban Neighborhoods Even Better
During the past decade, proponents of new urbanism and lovers of the environment have had an uneasy relationship. Saddled with an "all or nothing" mentality, both sides have dished up and received their share of disparaging remarks-in spite of their similar ideologies.
New urbanists, the environmentalists claim, are interested only in creating a better suburb - a prospect anathema to their thinking. From the generalist-minded new urbanists' perspective, environmentalists and other green-thinking types are too concerned with a single component of place-making, consumed by thinking that is usually out in left field - sometimes literally, with their "environmentally sensitive" homes and buildings stranded far from the infrastructure of towns or villages.
New urbanists, the environmentalists claim, are interested only in creating a better suburb - a prospect anathema to their thinking. From the generalist-minded new urbanists' perspective, environmentalists and other green-thinking types are too concerned with a single component of place-making, consumed by thinking that is usually out in left field - sometimes literally, with their "environmentally sensitive" homes and buildings stranded far from the infrastructure of towns or villages.
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