Greenville Magazine - July 2008 - (Page 60) Walk This Way new, walkable communities offer all-inclusive living BY BECKY MANN I PHOTOS SUPPLIED BY GRIFFIN PARK ew urbanism is sometimes described as a return to the layout found in small towns and villages of America. Others describe these neighborhoods as traditional. Over the last 40 years, America’s tradition has been something very different: cookie cutter homes in homogenous neighborhoods where everything including schools, shops and offices is outside the neighborhood, increasing reliance on the car and congestion on collector roads. New urbanism is a return to an earlier tradition, when houses sat on smaller lots, neighbors knew each other, and people could walk to work or the local grocery store. Today’s traditional neighborhood designs typically feature a variety of housing types so that a group of townhomes may border large, single-family 60 GreenviLLe MaGazine | JULY 2008 N homes, providing a variety of price ranges that appeal to people in different stages of life. The trend toward new urbanism has reached the Upstate where neighborhoods including Hollingsworth Park, Griffin Park and Acadia are taking shape. Why here and why now? Cynthia Yeager, director of marketing for Hollingsworth Park, sees it as a trend that started on the coast and has moved inland. “On the coast of South Carolina, you have a lot of options – Daniel Island, I’On, Habersham – those are all where it started. I think it’s just slow to come to Greenville, slow to move inland. Word of mouth created it, then the coastal communities had it first from developers taking that risk of doing something different,” she said.
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