Kickstarted: Crowd-funding Projects for Urban Environments

A view of a project proposal successfully funded via the Kickstarter platform. Courtesy + POOL Kickstarter page. http://kck.st/11VY7Sd

A view of a project proposal successfully funded via the Kickstarter platform.
Courtesy + POOL Kickstarter page. http://kck.st/11VY7Sd

It wasn’t the same old Duany song-and-dance at a recent conference hosted by the Florida chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. At the University of Miami in late January, acclaimed neotraditionalist architect and planner Andres Duany, of Seaside fame, “fell on his sword,” writes planner-writer Erin Chantry. The New Urbanist pioneer, humbled, admitted that tenets of the philosophy he helped make famous, years later, required rethinking.
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