page_title: New Urbanism
section_title: Asia
hierarchical_section_title: New Urbanism / Examples / Other countries / Asia
caption_attribution_description: English: Traffic along Lornie Road, Singapore, photographed from an overhead pedestrian crossing.
context_page_description: New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies. New urbanism attempts to address the ills associated with urban sprawl and post-Second World War suburban development.
  New Urbanism is strongly influenced by urban design practices that were prominent until the rise of the automobile prior to World War II; it encompasses ten basic principles such as traditional neighborhood design and transit-oriented development. These ideas can all be circled back to two concepts: building a sense of community and the development of ecological practices.
  The organizing body for New Urbanism is the Congress for the New Urbanism, founded in 1993. Its foundational text is the Charter of the New Urbanism, which begins:
context_section_description: The structure plan for Thimphu, Bhutan, follows Principles of Intelligent Urbanism, which share underlying axioms with the New Urbanism.
caption: Traffic along Lornie Road, Singapore.
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