And these subdivisions, if the town's zoning is not updated in light of the new urbanism, will eat up every acre of field and meadow, every woodland for housing and streets. Grosvenor and Asbell entered architecture at a time when their profession was reconsidering its relationship to urban planning. Our training is founded on rejecting the fallacy that architects should just design objects. Our choice has been from the start to do small scale neighborhoods and town planning. Asbell does not agree with everything Walters has done in Locust's master plan, and it is important that the Stanfield council hear his approach to city planning.
Most traditional planners are out of date.
It was the architectural profession which created the new urbanism, or anti-sprawl town planning of the Nineties, and architects continue to lead towns into new ways of planning. There is a lot to consider for the Stanfield council. The town must have a master plan, but it must be a plan that recognizes what is now wrong in city planning and adjusts for it. Grosvenor and Asbell are scheduled to speak at the next council meeting, but there probably will not be sufficient time to absorb their ideas in planning. Their proposal to the town includes an offer to take the cost of a master plan out in trade.