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No single strategy will do
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Model of the centralized street pattern for phase one of Celebration, Florida
We find ourselves in a process of place making and in new kinds of places, whose grammar cannot be captured in concentric and hierarchical forms. Yet I applaud the New Urbanist use of traditional centralized urban elements.
These seemingly opposed views are reconciled in the realization that New Urbanist places fit into a larger landscape where the traditional forms may improve the density and quality of local living, without dominating the whole linked process or the full reality of the place.
We should not expect any single formal strategy, no matter how traditional or anti-traditional, to sum up how we live today.