A recent New York Times article featured the

A recent New York Times article featured the New Urbanism as an antidote to the physical and emotional isolation encountered by teenagers living in suburban tract developments such as Littleton, Colorado. Typical suburban developments, with their larger lots and car-based culture, may lead teenagers to become alienated and “disassociated from the reality of other people,” according to the article. Noted new urbanists Andres Duany, Peter Katz, and Jonathan Barnett were interviewed about the potential for new urbanist design to anticipate and accommodate adolescent development. Peter Katz used Disney’s Celebration as an example of a neotraditional design that includes a meeting place for local teenagers — a bridge between downtown and the health center. It offers teenagers a degree of privacy in full sight of other residents, he says, indicating that such spaces for teenagers could be incorporated as conscious additions in other neotraditional communities.