Part 8 of Andres Duany’s lecture on new urbanism covers: “It’s all about the cars, cont’d; Seniors & children suffer the most from today’s sprawl, causing poor quality of life issues and reverse migrations.”

Part 7 of Andres Duany’s lecture on new urbanism covers: “Residential development issues, cont’d; Open Spaces; Roads: highways,avenues: It’s all about the cars; Kevin Lynch; Landmarks; Terminating vistas, then and now.”

Part 6 of Andres Duany’s lecture on new urbanism covers: “‘Sense of Place’, cont’d; What is it? How do you achieve it? What makes historical neighborhoods so desirable? The role of landscaping; Current residential development issues.”

Part 5 of Andres Duany’s lecture on new urbanism covers: “Residential, continued; granny flats/garage apartments, addressing affordable housing; The discipline of front/back; Intro, ‘sense of place.'”

Part 4 of Andres Duany’s lecture on new urbanism covers: “Residential component today, vs. the way we used to do it-(combining retail with residential); Importance of mixed use/range of income earners; Privacy and Community; “McMansions”; why people prefer to live in traditional towns vs. suburbs.”

Part 3 of Andres Duany’s lecture on new urbanism covers: “The four major components of suburban sprawl cont’d; Business/retail component.”

Part 2 of Andes Duany’s lecture covers: “Zoning/Codes; Single Use vs. Mixed Use Planning; Traffic and congestion issues; Quality of Life issues; Scale and relation to physical compatibility vs. functional compatibility.”

I found a great video of Andres Duany talking about “new urbanism” on YouTube. Duany was the consultant that came to Peoria in 2002 and wrote the Heart of Peoria Plan. This video is a lecture he gave in San Antonio, but the principles are the same. It’s about 90 minutes long total, but it’s broken up into nine 10-minute segments for easy viewing.

I’ll featuring one segment a day for the next nine days. (Of course, if you just get caught up in it and can’t wait to see the next part, just go to YouTube and search for “Andres Duany.”) Part 1 covers: “Introduction; Background; Suburban sprawl patterns; the four major components; public realm/private realm.”

Feel free to discuss each of these in the comments section.