New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism

New Urban Cowboy Toward a New Pedestrianism is a 2007 documentary film, and DVD release, about American artist and urban designer Michael E. Arth, his New Pedestrianism movement, and his efforts to rebuild the cities, beginning with Cracktown, an inner city slum in DeLand, Florida. This 83minute international editionwith subtitles in Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinesewas reedited from a 100minute version that made the film festival circuit in 2007. The earlier version was titled New Urban Cowboy The Labors of Michael E. Arth.

New Pedestrianism NP is a more idealistic variation of New Urbanism in urban planning theory, founded in 1999 by Michael E. Arth. NP addresses the problems associated with New Urbanism and is an attempt to solve various social, health, energy, economic, aesthetic, and environmental problems, with special focus on reducing the role of the automobile. A neighborhood or new town utilizing NP is called a Pedestrian Village. Pedestrian Villages can range from being nearly carfree to having automobile access behind nearly every house and business, but pedestrian lanes are always in front.Arths Garden District project was also an attempt to create a living laboratory in order to try out some of the ideas in a twovolume book that he was writing titled, The Labors of Hercules Modern Solutions toHerculean Problems. ........

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