“Toward the end of the Second World War, a new consciousness arose amongst the public and policy makers of the Western World. After ten years of crippling economic depression and another five at war, the public demanded something new from their disintegrating urban environments.” CitiesHistoryUrbanModernismPublic PolicyModern ArchitecturePost WarUrbanismUrban HistoryNew Urbanism Author:Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994” BuildingArchitectureAmerican ArchitectureNew Urbanism Book:The Old Way of Seeing Source: The Old Way of Seeing