Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia
New Urbanism is a recent American reform approach to urban development, which attempts to reduce car dependence through traditional design qualities such as connected streets with paths, higher density and mix with local centres. The Western Australian State Government has developed ‘Liveable Neighb...
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2010
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| author | Falconer, R. Newman, Peter Giles-Corti, B. |
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| description | New Urbanism is a recent American reform approach to urban development, which attempts to reduce car dependence through traditional design qualities such as connected streets with paths, higher density and mix with local centres. The Western Australian State Government has developed ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’, which is a context-specific design code based on new Urbanist principles. This design code has been applied in the development of several dozen new neighbourhoods in Perth over the last decade. This paper shows that these developments do create more local walking but are no different to conventional suburban development in their regional car dependence. The causes of this are pursued in terms of a gap between principles and practice. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-39492019-02-19T04:25:44Z Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia Falconer, R. Newman, Peter Giles-Corti, B. New Urbanism is a recent American reform approach to urban development, which attempts to reduce car dependence through traditional design qualities such as connected streets with paths, higher density and mix with local centres. The Western Australian State Government has developed ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’, which is a context-specific design code based on new Urbanist principles. This design code has been applied in the development of several dozen new neighbourhoods in Perth over the last decade. This paper shows that these developments do create more local walking but are no different to conventional suburban development in their regional car dependence. The causes of this are pursued in terms of a gap between principles and practice. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3949 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.01.014 Elsevier Science Ltd fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Falconer, R. Newman, Peter Giles-Corti, B. Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia |
| title | Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia |
| title_full | Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia |
| title_fullStr | Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia |
| title_short | Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia |
| title_sort | is practice aligned with the principles? implementing new urbanism in perth, western australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3949 |