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7 Principles For Building Better Cities
Peter Calthorpe – Who Is He? With a strong focus and passion dedicated to developing new approaches to urban revitalisation, suburban growth and regional planning, Calthorpe’s honoured career in urban design, planning and architecture shouldn’t be overlooked. Through written work and projects, Calthorpe has spread the vision of New Urbanism, a framework for creating sustainable, human-scaled places. Peter Calthorpe’s decades worth of design practice has always been led by the concept that popular and successful places, including neighbourhoods, towns, urban districts or metropolitan regions, must be diverse in terms of people, be scaled to walkers and human interactions and must be environmentally sustainable. All of these ideas were broken down…