Essays on New Urbanism

Currently Brazil is grappling with a future city planning debate involving New Urbanism. While the most sustainable way of development would be to build “walkable” cities, with mixed use zoning laws and residential areas very close or sometimes intertwined with industrial and commercial facilities, many…

Urbanism is the advancement of town centres or cities that were developed to perform specific capabilities in relation to the environment in which they were found. (McIntosh 1997) The development of these urban areas in southern Africa saw the formation of continuous settlements within a…