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Peter Hetzel
Peter J. Hetzel is an architect based in Washington DC.
CNU should engage with European urbanists
For all its beautiful urbanism and high-quality transit, which America should emulate, Europe is behind the US in the understanding of charrettes, developers-as-town-founders, form-based coding, the Transect, and other new urban ideas.