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By MALEX (anonymous) | Posted November 24, 2010 at 09:53:24

My wife and I lived in a New Urbanism subdivision out in Markham called Cornell...and it never lived up to the sales hype...sure the streetscape looked gorgeous with all the garages tucked behind the houses, but the shops and services we were meant to walk to all went belly up because nobody would get out of their cars and actually walk! The corner bistro with the lovely patio eventually became a doctors office, the DVD shop became a learning center, and many of the other store fronts remain empty to this day...

So yeah, in theory, new urbanism is great, but without everybody buying into it, it's just that, a theory and the subdivision is no different from all the others...

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