In my previous post, I included an excerpt from the Tradition, South Carolina Web site, which described the new development as having drawn inspiration from "charming communities of days-gone-by." Included among the traits of these supposedly extinct places are:- A living arrangement that allows residents to walk or bike to stores and restaurants.
- Front porches, from which residents may greet "passing neighbors."
- Parks and playgrounds.
Based on this indisputable evidence, I've come to the conclusion that for the last five years, I've been living in a community of days-gone-by. Quick, someone send me a golf cart cart so I can get with the times.
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A yard full of bikes. SO lovely.
Tradition looks very like the Stapleton development in Denver. Stapleton is an awful, sterile place to be. It is isolated by street layout from the surrounding communities. One can walk and bike around, but there's really no place to go and, (particularly) on a bike, no good way to get there.
I have stashed a critique of "new urbanism" for a post I haven't gotten around to writing. I'll see whether I can find it and send it to you. The most interesting thing about the critique is how apt it is applied to Stapleton, though it was made many years ago.
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