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📅 Today's Story: The study reviewed over 200 research papers that indicate New Urbanism development lowers infrastructure costs, boosts tax revenues, and promotes healthier, more walkable communities. But policy and implementation barriers remain.
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RESEARCH
New Urbanism Research Reveals Cost, Tax, and Health Benefits |
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Orenco Station in Hillsboro, Oregon (Source: CNU)
📰 What Happened: The University of Notre Dame reviewed over 200 studies, painting a comprehensive picture of New Urbanism's real-world benefits, which center around compact, walkable, mixed-use communities. New Urbanism can cut infrastructure costs, promote healthier lifestyles, and generate more tax revenues vs. conventional suburban development.
🔍 A Closer Look: Specifically, New Urbanism saves developers 38% on infrastructure costs, boosts tax revenues by 10x per acre, and reduces recurring public service expenses. It also reduced car dependency, created more walkable communities, and resulted in measurable improvements in social trust, public health, and sustainability.
🧠 Why It Matters: As cities evolve, New Urbanism presents an opportunity to create more sustainable, livable environments for urban planners, architects, and developers seeking to fix the problems modern cities face. However, the approach still faces misconceptions among practitioners and policy frameworks that favor conventional suburban development.
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