Green Building Article

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Leon Neyfakh’s article Green building (2011), focuses on the debate between proponents of New urbanism and Landscape urbanism. Neyfakh mentions a meeting of New urbanists who sought to strategize on how to support make the school of thought more prominent as landscape urbanism started garnering interest. Neyfakh seeks to highlight the divergent viewpoints pitting the New urbanists against the landscape urbanists in order to point out the contentious issues on city planning in America. Neyfakh is writing to those interested in understanding the place of urbanism in urban planning and architecture for American cities, and particularly the relationship between urbanism and sustainability.
Neyfakh points out that landscape urbanism places more emphasis on natural landscapes rather than buildings in city planning. As such living ecosystems integrate both nature and city would result in sustainability. This stands in contrast to New Urbanism, whose...