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<\/a>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University sociology professor Aaron Passell has written a book about the New Urbanism movement and its influence on suburban design, planning and development in recent decades.<\/p>\nBuilding the New Urba<\/em>nism: Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape<\/em> is published by Routledge.<\/p>\n Passell\u2019s book asks why \u201cNew Urbanism now?\u201d and situates the growth of the New Urbanism in the history of urban and suburban policy and development.\u00a0 It builds an account of the movement\u2019s founding and development, linking its progress to the making of new places. The volume also investigates how the movement capitalized upon dynamics within architecture, planning and the homebuying public to recruit support from among those groups.<\/p>\n The book establishes a framework for analyzing the opportunities and constraints that confront efforts to change the way the built environment is produced. \u00a0It also reveals how elaborately social the production of that environment is and how specific the material solutions to social conditions must be to resolve this process.<\/p>\n Building the New Urbanism<\/em> encapsulates and engages the dominant history of American suburbia and brings the work of prominent theorists of culture and science into the investigation. It broadens the focus of urban studies to the metropolitan region and draws on extensive interviews with key figures in the New Urbanism movement. The book targets scholars and students of urban and suburban development, sociology, geography, and planning.<\/p>\n Dr. Aaron Passell<\/p><\/div>\n Passell joined the Furman faculty this year. He specializes in the urban and suburban built environments, their development and redevelopment, and associated questions of social equity and environmental impact. His current research concerns urban historic districts and processes of neighborhood change. \u00a0A graduate of Wesleyan University, he holds a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University.<\/p>\n More information about Building the New Urbanism<\/em> can be found here<\/a>,<\/em> or contact Aaron Passell at 864-294-2479 or aaron.passell@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 17, 2012 Furman sociology professor Aaron Passell has written a book about the New Urbanism movement and its influence on suburban design, planning and development in recent decades.\u00a0Building the New Urbanism: Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape<\/em> is published by Routledge. Passell, who joined the faculty this year, specializes in the urban and suburban built environments, and associated questions of social equity and environmental impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n