Eric O. Jacobsen

Is New Urbanism a pale facsimile of North America’s paleo-urban communities in Toronto, New York City, Montreal, or elsewhere? Is New Urbanism merely “gentrification” by another name? Or, are New Urbanists recovering something lost when high-density, urban communities built on the grid with a tuck and milk stop on the corner were abandoned for gently curving crescents, sweeping lawns, and concrete pads leading to double garages of suburbia?