Sentences with phrase «urbanism principles»

Instead of building houses snug up against the fairways at golf course communities, he said, smart developers are going green by featuring farms and encouraging gardening at communities that embrace new urbanism principles.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the redevelopment agency focused on attracting more residential development, and promoted new urbanism principles such as walkable, tree - lined streets.

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Its mission is to honor architectural excellence by acknowledging an architect who has applied the principles of traditional, classical, and sustainable architecture and urbanism to contemporary society.

«These really wide blocks and really wide streets are actually really flexible,» says James Alfandre, executive director of the Kentlands Initiative, a nonprofit working to advance principles of new urbanism.