Calthorpe+and+Fulton,+Designing+the+Region

From //The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl// 2001
 * "Designing the Region" and "Designing the Region is Designing the Neighborhood"**

Peter Calthorpe was born in London and attended Yale School of Architecture. he is an architect and urban planner who advocates and promotes the incorporation of sustainable building practices. He is a founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism.
 * Calthorpe, Peter**

William Fulton graduated from the UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is president of the Solimar Research Group, providing empirical research on land use, metropolitan growth, and related policy concerns to governments, foundations, and planning agencies.
 * Fulton, William**

Calthorpe and Fulton believe in the New Urbanist conception, which incorporates a holistic, ecological approach to urban planning that correlates the smaller and more personal neighborhood scale with the metropolitan scale of the region. They believe that our economy and culture have accelerated their movement toward the industrial qualities of mass production, standardizations, and specialization and the suburbanization. They feel that incorporating the principles of diversity, conservation, and human scale can lead us toward a shift away from the current trend and toward the move efficient and improved city.
 * Main Argument**

The authors illustrate the parellel design strategies that emerge at both the regional and neighborhood levels if the three design principles (human scale, diversity, and conservation) are implemented.
 * Other Ideas in the Article**

Regional design incorporates the demands of the region's ecology, economy, history, politics, regulation, culture, and social structure.

Easy read, understandable
 * Comments**

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