Urbanism III

• Created by Peter Calthorpe 
• up to 110 acres of pedestrian friendly district in a metropolis that linked transit 

also known as Cluster zoning where houses are only built on buildable land and everything else is untouched 

• 1.keep garages off street front (shared driveways 
• 2.back alleys and lanes between homes 
• 3.keep houses close to the street 
• 4.Provide a network of green open spaces 
• 5. Have a neighborhood store 

people think new urbanism forces people to live in a way that someone else wants them to

• most favorable company town in the U.S. 
• worked perfectly until the company failed resulting in the failure of the entire town 

• Planned for automobiles to coexist with pedestrians 
• there was an underpass under most of the roads for pedestrian safety 

• residential only 
• no grid layout and the streets were laid out to countour the landscape 

• an example of railroad suburb 
• more related to new urbanism, more commercial uses 
• compact 
• linked by railroads 

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• Created by Sir Titus Salt 
• an example of a well planned company town 
• made sure that his residents were happy 
• parks business and other amenities