Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030

摘要

Baby boomers are in or nearing retirement ages, real energy costs are rising, and those of us in the developed world increasingly find ourselves entrenched in a service-based economy. The strokes that Nelson uses to paint America's future landscape are laid on this basic canvas. It is like an update of Alvin Toffler's Third Wave but with an eye toward the built environment. Chris Nelson is an academic planner, now at the University of Utah, who is probably best known for his work in growth management and urban containment. So, his artistic school is, not surprisingly, one of 'new urbanism.' For those 'not in the know,' new urbanist thinking, according to the Charter of New Urbanism is that: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice.