Tuesday, August 20, 2013

In the News: "New Ruralism"


Large subdivision eyed next to Middleton's Pleasant View golf course.  (Capital Times, 8/19/2013)

Excerpt:     Plans call for an assortment of residential neighborhoods situated around a working farm. Developers hope to break ground in 2014 with homes built over the next half-dozen years. 

"We're still in the early stages on a lot of this," says Jane Grabowski-Miller of Erdman Real Estate Holdings. 

Billed as "new ruralism" — a twist on the planning concept of "new urbanism" — the Erdman project would encompass undeveloped land between U.S. Highway 14 and the golf course, which the city purchased in 1995.

Related readings
A Call for New Ruralism.  (Farmland Information Center)
A Call for New Ruralism: Reinvestment in Metro-Region Agriculture Is Integral to Metro-Region Sustainability. (Smart Growth Network, February 2013)
The New Ruralism, by Rick Wartzman.  (New American Foundation)
New Ruralism – Regional Food & Ag Systems.  (SAGE)

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