DAVID MAYERNIK
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It is those spaces between the buildings where community happens, the piazzas and terraces and stair and “streets,” where students learn to share communal space and which therefore help form them into a community. With students from 60 different countries, TASIS really is a global village. And the hope is that what they learn here about getting along, about making the world a better place, they will take with them when they leave.

[I]t has somehow crept into the discourse lately that specific dimensions are in some way meaningful

I suppose the word “New” insulates New Urbanism from expectations that it corresponds to the old or pre-Modernist way of making cities and towns.

Some Good Things that Happened to Cities after the Middle Ages There’s a substantial cadre of urbanists who think of themselves as...