Nature and society: New urbanisms and an old dilemma

Abstract

Once the sustainable planning became unanimity, and a new agenda to tackle new challenges a need, the questions now raised divided opinions on the “how” to do it. Recent discussions have shown two important trends, one turns to the past, the traditional city, and the other looks at the future, calling for an ecological avant-garde. If these approaches are complementary or contradictory is the question that this paper aims to raise. Since a brief historical overview to recent discussions between New Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism, this question is revealed not as new, but as perennial and inherent to the human spirit.