Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Civil, Structure and Environmental Engineering

Innovation and Reflection on Peter Calthorpe’s New Urbanism

Authors
Lei Yan, Weiran Zhou
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Lei Yan
Available Online April 2016.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Civil, Structure and Environmental Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
April 2016
ISBN
10.2991/i3csee-16.2016.6
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/i3csee-16.2016.6How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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