New Urbanism in Historical Context

Emily TalenArizona State University

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Sienna,1340fresco

ProgressiveEra GreatPlanners Depression Seaside

1900 1930 1980

No Good Ideas

American City Planning Timeline

1. New Towns

Miletus, 5th c. BCAigues-Mortes, France, 13th c.

Savannah, 1733

Versailles

L’Enfant’s Plan of Washington, 1791

Replanning of Rome, 1585-90, Pope Sixtus V

The Monumental City

Siena, ItalyBaghdad, Iraq

Vezelay, France

The Organic City

Charles Fourier, a Phalanstery, c. 1814

Pullman, Illinois, 1880 Charles Fourier, a Phalanstery, c. 1814

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Radburn, NJ, 1929

Sunnyside Gardens, NY, 1924

Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

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Jane Addams, 1860-1935

Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006

The Perfect Storm

Cheap carsMortgage guaranteesRacismHighway expansionModernist urbanism

NewUrbanism

Robert Owen, “Project for a Village of Cooperation”, 1816

Saltaire, 1851

Port Sunlight, 1888, W. H.

Lever