Is Sioux Falls ready for New Urbanism

Clinton Brown
Create Space
Published in
2 min readMay 31, 2019

New Urbanism is a planning and development approach based on the principles of how cities and towns had been built for the last several centuries: walkable blocks and streets, housing and shopping in close proximity, and accessible public spaces. In other words: New Urbanism focuses on human-scaled urban design.

This is informed by the New Urbanism Charter.

What if Sioux Falls repurposed a couple of spots they mow and made them spots of vibrancy.

What if this abandoned track field

Or this former location of a school

Became something like this

Is Sioux Falls ready? And yes these contribute to Boulder’s Affordable Housing efforts.

https://coburnpartners.com/projects/iris-hollow/

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Clinton Brown
Create Space

I fuss over what kind of world I am leaving for my grandkids.