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Europe???s best new neighborhoods stress smart, green features
Posted on September 04, 2008
A jury of top international architects and urbanists has selected ten winners of the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for the best urban neighborhoods built in the last 25 years. The winners are all fabulous projects featuring revitalization, walkable design, mixed use, sustainability, respect for historic precedent, and affordability the building blocks of smart growth.For example, the rebuilt center of Plessis-Robinson, a Paris suburb near Versailles, had declined into a sad collection of dilapidated public high-rises not unlike similar public housing failures in Chicago and New York...
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