Editing Urban design (section)

====Current trends====
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File:Celebration fl.JPG|Market Street, [[Celebration, Florida]]
File:Sankt Eriksområdet 2014, 1.JPG|New urbanist Sankt Eriksområdet quarter in Stockholm, Sweden, built in the 1990s
File:Queen Mother SQUARE, Poundbury, Dorset.jpg|[[Poundbury]], Dorset
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[[File:Jakriborg, juni 2005 c.jpg|thumb|[[Jakriborg]], in Sweden, started in the late 1990s as a [[New Urbanism|new urbanist]] eco-friendly [[Planned community|new town]] near [[Malmö]]]]
Today, urban design seeks to create [[sustainable city|sustainable urban]] environments with long-lasting structures, buildings, and overall livability. [[Walkability|Walkable]] urbanism is another approach to practice that is defined within the ''Charter of [[New Urbanism]]''. It aims to reduce environmental impacts by altering the built environment to create smart cities that support [[sustainable transport]]. Compact urban neighborhoods encourage residents to drive less. These neighborhoods have significantly lower environmental impacts when compared to [[urban sprawl|sprawling]] suburbs.<ref>Ewing, R [http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/gcindex.html "Growing Cooler - the Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224212241/http://smartgrowthamerica.org/gcindex.html |date=2010-12-24 }}. Retrieved on: 2009-03-16.</ref> To prevent urban sprawl, [[Circular flow land use management]] was introduced in Europe to promote sustainable land use patterns.

As a result of the recent [[New Classical Architecture]] movement, [[sustainable architecture|sustainable construction]] aims to develop [[smart growth]], walkability, [[Vernacular architecture|architectural tradition]], and [[Classical architecture|classical design]].<ref>[http://www.cnu.org/charter Charter of the New Urbanism]</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Beauty, Humanism, Continuity between Past and Future|url=http://www.traditionalarchitecture.co.uk/aims.html|publisher=Traditional Architecture Group|access-date=23 March 2014|archive-date=5 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305215635/http://www.traditionalarchitecture.co.uk/aims.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It contrasts with [[Modern architecture|modernist]] and [[International Style (architecture)|globally uniform]] architecture. In the 1980s, urban design began to oppose the increasing solitary [[housing estate]]s and [[Urban sprawl|suburban sprawl]].<ref>[http://www.aia.org/SiteObjects/files/smartgrowth05.pdf Issue Brief: Smart-Growth: Building Livable Communities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119170943/https://www.aia.org/SiteObjects/files/smartgrowth05.pdf |date=2018-11-19 }}. American Institute of Architects. Retrieved on 2014-03-23.</ref>
Managed Urbanisation with the view to making the urbanising process completely culturally and economically, and environmentally sustainable, and as a possible solution to the [[urban sprawl]], Frank Reale has submitted an interesting concept of [https://sites.google.com/view/managedurbanisation/ Expanding Nodular Development (E.N.D.)] that integrates many urban designs and ecological principles, to design and build smaller rural hubs with high-grade connecting freeways, rather than adding more expensive infrastructure to existing big cities and the resulting congestion.