MICHAEL NEWCOMER SOON TO RELEASE WHERE AND HOW WE LIVE: A LOOK AT NEW URBANISM

John Gordon Burke Publisher Inc. has announced the release of Michael Newcomers Where and How We Live: A Look at New Urbanism. A city design technique first adopted over twenty years ago, new urbanism attempts to bring communities closer together by offering residential settings near and within commercial locations. Looking back at the Norman Rockwell style America, the design concept is catching on all over the country including such cities as Seaside, Florida and Columbia, Maryland. New urban communities can boast of a lower cost of living when compared to fast-paced and high density cities mainly due to the lower crime rate and less need for automobiles.

Evanston, IL. -- John Gordon Burke Publisher Inc. has announced the release of Michael Newcomers Where and How We Live: A Look at New Urbanism. A city design technique first adopted over twenty years ago, new urbanism attempts to bring communities closer together by offering residential settings near and within commercial locations. Looking back at the Norman Rockwell style America, the design concept is catching on all over the country including such cities as Seaside, Florida and Columbia, Maryland. New urban communities can boast of a lower cost of living when compared to fast-paced and high density cities mainly due to the lower crime rate and less need for automobiles. While people like Seaside founder Robert Davis and architects Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe and Victor Dover have significantly influenced the practice of incorporating new urbanism ideas into city design, author Michael Newcomer has captured its importance in his latest piece of work.

Having spent most of his life traveling and seeing the world, Newcomer was able to draw from personal experience and first-hand knowledge of most of the places he details. But, it wasnt until John Gordon Burke himself enlisted Newcomer to write the book that he was actually able to envision the undertaking as a worthwhile cause. People need to be made aware of how communities can be transformed back into the tight-nit, walkable neighborhoods that once existed. The age of Sprawl is over, its time to come back together again." The movement people commonly call Urban Sprawl" began shortly after WWII when more and more people were looking for elbow room" and trying to get away from the old Mayberry" type of residential setting. Many of the proponents of new urbanism argue that vast resources have been swallowed only to provide an unrealistic person to land ratio. The growth of which will never be able to accommodate our future populations.

Regardless of your position on tight community living arrangements or wide-open spaces, Where and How We Live: A Look at New Urbanism by Michael Newcomer promises to handle the many issues of urban development in a light and factual manner. The planned release of the book will be in the fall of 2003 and will be offered through various venues including the publishers website jgburkepub.com. Look for it now in the Forth Coming" page and make sure you have your copy reserved.