Word: urbanisme
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A recent gift of $2.5 in endowment funds from His Highness The Aga Khan '58 will fund The Aga Khan Professorship of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Islamic Societies at the Graduate School of Design.
Conference organizer Alex Krieger, chair of the Department of Urban Planning at the GSD, offered a critique of the New Urbanism movement.
New Urbanism, a philosophy of urban planning that has emerged in recent decades as an alternative to suburban sprawl, advocates denser housing, mixed commercial and residential areas, pedestrian friendliness and viable city centers.
Instead of focusing its energies on rehabilitating existing city centers, the New Urbanism movement has concentrated on constructing new planned communities.
Krieger also moderated an informal debate between New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany and noted Dutch architect Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and author of Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, a book he describes as an "architectural novel."