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Este artigo apresenta uma visão geral sobre o New Urbanism - um movimento urbanístico com a grande influência no planejamento e na arquitetura americanas. Este advoga um retorno a formas tradicionais do urbanismo e oferece um conjunto de princípios projetuais e urbanísticos para as mais diferentes escalas. O artigo discute algumas das lições apreendidas na última década pela ação desse movimento e os princípios adotados para sua implementação. ; This article provides an overview of new urbanism, a new influential movement in planning and architecture in the United States that is making a visible impact on the way american towns and cities are built. New urbanism challenges the current development practices in the US which have contributed to urban sprawl, inner city decay, degradation of natural resources, and loss of community identity. It advocates a return to the timeless goals of traditional urbanism and offers a complex set of design principles and public policies to guide development at all scales of the built environment: from the small scale (building, block, street) through the intermediate scale (neighborhood, corridor, district) to the large scale (region, city and town). The article discusses some of the lessons learned from this movement in the last decade, showing why it has gained wide support among professionals, developers, politicians and the general public, and why its principles have been adopted for planning and development of new settlements and redevelopment of existing urban areas.

Our traditional image of Chicago-as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends-is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City-inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko-with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third

ABSTRACTThe main research emphases of American political science research on urban politics are outlined, and it is concluded that many American conceptual frameworks have been determined by American political culture and by the nature of urban development in the U.S. This research has only limited utility for Europeans because in many important respects European urban development is distinctive, and because where North American and European urbanism do have similarities, American political science studies have generally not generated theories which are useful for guiding comparative research.