1. The New Urbanism offers a set of principles for new developments and infill.
2. Though often criticized, New Urbanist principles have much to offer on both the neighborhood and regional level.
3. Despite their traditional look, New Urbanist developments are new kinds of places.
4. Their look and feel is not the same as older towns, and they have a different grammar from both traditional towns and standard suburbs. These differences can be seen in:
   1. Work patterns
   2. Transportation patterns
   3. Norms for community
   4. Center of gravity
5. The developments can be evaluated on several familiar scales, and especially on their acknowledgment that they are indeed new kinds of places functioning within the networks and flows.

Index
General outline
"sprawl outline"

(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001