Innovation and Reflection on Peter Calthorpe’s New Urbanism
- DOI
- 10.2991/i3csee-16.2016.6How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- New Urbanism; Peter Calthorpe; transit-oriented development; low carbon cities; China
- Abstract
New Urbanism is a planning and design approach focused on human scale, diversity and conversation. Based on the introduction of New Urbanism and review Peter Calthorpe’s famous books, this paper presents the innovations of Peter Calthorpe’s New Urbanism covering from pedestrian pocket to transit-oriented development, from neighborhood to regional city and from sustainable community to low carbon cities, and considers Peter Calthorpe’s multidisciplinary theory system and holistic perspectives that define the recent history of urban design in its most vital and prescient manifestations. Utilizing the empirical analysis of China’s new town schemes guided by Calthorpe, this paper seeks to unpack the emergence, implementation, impact assessment and refinement of New Urbanism in China’s new town and low carbon cities. Theoretically, multi-interest-oriented development, reforming public policy and completing market mechanism as well as controlling time and order of development are suggested to keep new town sustainable development. Meanwhile, from simple urbanism to green New Urbanism, it is re-positioned as a localized and politicized response to urban smart growth that needs indispensable support from transit-oriented development, mature public policies and eco-technology.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Lei Yan AU - Weiran Zhou PY - 2016/04 DA - 2016/04 TI - Innovation and Reflection on Peter Calthorpe’s New Urbanism BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Civil, Structure and Environmental Engineering PB - Atlantis Press SP - 29 EP - 34 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/i3csee-16.2016.6 DO - 10.2991/i3csee-16.2016.6 ID - Yan2016/04 ER -