New Urbanist Silverback Andres Duany and the Young Locusts

by Sarah Goodyear
May 21, 2010

If you’ve been roaming the urbanist blogosphere this week, you may have happened upon the comments made by one of the progenitors of New Urbanism, Andres Duany, in an interview with the Atlantic. Duany, apparently, has a problem with young people coming into a city and using it in a way that he disapproves of:

There’s this generation who grew up in the suburbs, for whom the suburbs have no magic. The mall has no magic. They’re the ones that have discovered the city.

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Kentlands: a successful example of new urbanism in East Coast (photo: DrLandscape/Flickr)