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Historical patterns of community development include: social diversity, pedestrian scale, <br />public space and the structure of bounded neighborhoods. <br /> <br />· All human settlement should be treated as a whole-socially, economically and ecologically. <br /> <br />Each new development project should be evaluated in terms of: quality of design, pedestrian <br />scale, identifiable center and edge, integrated mixed uses and populations, and defined public <br />space. <br /> <br />Public space should be formative, not residual, meaning that the form and function of public <br />space, in all of its sizes, is the common ground integrally connected to all other land uses. <br /> <br />Development should be oriented around and supported by regional transit systems. (The <br />underlying objective hem is to get people out of their cars and walk or take transit to and from <br />destinations.) <br /> <br />Mixed-use development, where civic, business and residential uses should be overlain and co- <br />mingled. <br /> <br />Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk emphasize New Urbanism principles that focus on neighborhood <br />and district development, with special attention being paid to the corridors that connect them. The <br />fundamental organizing elements of the New Urbanism are the neighborhood, the district and the corridor. <br /> <br />The NEIGHBORHOOD is a balanced mix of residences, workplaces, shops, civic buildings and <br />parks. <br /> <br />The neighborhood prioritizes public space and civic buildings by placing these uses at the core, <br />the village center. <br /> <br />THE DISTRICT is an urbanized area that is functionally specialized, such as an historic district, or <br />an arts or theater district. <br /> <br />Districts are not single use areas, such as the office park or shopping center or subdivisions, but <br />allow a mix of uses that minfome an overall primary identity. <br /> <br />THE CORRIDOR is both a connector and separator of neighborhoods and districts. Corridors <br />can include both natural and human elements ranging from wildlife trails to rail lines. Corridors that <br />separate (act as edges) uses on the Bernal Property include rail lines, the freeway and Bernal Avenue. <br />Corridors that connect include the central drainage channel, possible future tunnel under freeway, <br />future under-crossing at the rail line, future park trail systems. <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br /> <br />