New UrbanismNew Urbanism, a thriving genre of architecture and urban planning, is a movement that has only arisen in the last decade. This movement is a response to the proliferation of conventional suburban development (CSD), the most popular form of suburban expansion that has taken place since World War II. Robert Steuteville wrote: "In the absence of a city center or pedestrian scale, the CSD expands to consume large areas of countryside even as the population grows relatively slowly. Car use per capita has increased dramatically, because a motor vehicle is necessary for almost all human transportation"1. New Urbanism, therefore, represents the opposite of this planning ideology. It emphasizes traditional planning, including multifunctional zoning, accessible public space, narrow street grids for easy pedestrian use, and improved placement of community buildings. Only a few hundred American communities are using this planning method, but the impact is rapidly growing in a nascent field dominated by a few influential architects and engineers. Perhaps the best-known pioneers of New Urbanism are Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), a highly successful architecture firm that boasts three offices on the East Coast.2 Although the company was founded in 1980, he gained national recognition for his project of Seaside, Florida in 19892. Seaside, a beautiful coordination of simple Florida cottages along the white beaches of Northwest Florida, became a model for the construction of walkable neighborhoods and community integration by enforcing a strict uniform building code, using sensible and aesthetic planning methods (e.g., each street extends to the... center of the card... sterplan." http:// www.dpz.com/projects8 Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. "St. Luigi." http://www.dpz. com/projects· Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. "San Juan Bautista. (Architecture)" http://www.dpz.com/projects10 Rohn, David. "Chesterton, Indiana, development project incorporates environmental concerns." Indianapolis Star. July 30, 2001.11 Coffee Creek Center. "Ecology." http: //www.coffeecreekcenter.com/pages/design/ecology.htm· Coffee Creek Center. “Design Code Book.” http://www.coffeecreekcenter.com/media/mediaattn/CCC-Codebook_web.pdf12 Miller, Jason. "New Towns - Issaquah Highlands, Washington." http://www.tndtownpaper.com/Volume 5/issaquah_highlands.htm13 Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. (Suburban Retrofits)" http://www.dpz.com/projects