In the 90s, I used to sit at a sidewalk café in my hometown of #PaloAlto, reading The New Urbanism. It laid out a vision for transforming sterile, auto-dependent office parks into traditional walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods.

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“The modern North American workplace is no longer a bad neighbor to dwellings and shops.” – Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, in The #NewUrbanism.

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2017/10/31/25-great-ideas-new-urbanism
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“The conventional suburban practice of segregating uses by zones is the legacy of the “dark satanic mills,” which were once genuine hazards to public welfare.”

– Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, in The New Urbanism.

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/suburban-office-park-must-adapt-or-die
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“The separation of dwelling from workplace in the course of the last century was the great achievement of the nascent planning profession and remains institutionalized in zoning ordinances.”

– Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, in The New Urbanism.
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“The #NewUrbanism offers an alternative future for the building and rebuilding of regions. Neighborhoods that are compact, mixed-use and pedestrian friendly…”

– Andre Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, in The New Urbanism.

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2017/04/20/great-idea-charter-new-urbanism
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Good to see it happening, at last, on the Peninsula.

“ #NorthBayshore is undergoing the first steps of a major transformation into a mixed-use, urban neighborhood, replacing sprawling single-story office campuses with high-density housing & offices.”

https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2020/12/14/mountain-view-pours-15m-into-north-bayshores-first-affordable-housing-project
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