This blog asks a question: What is the process of attracting a following whom understand the importance of sustainable urban growth? This understanding comprehends that transportation is the foundation to all urban growth and sustainable transportation is the basis for sustainable urban growth.

In recent years, popular discussion in community planning has produced many new terms, phraseology and ‘green’ legislation. New Urbanism is the brain dead political direction which forces metropolitan residents into compressed living spaces with fatigued 19^th Century transportation. Sustainable urban growth requires personal enrichment of all residents, rather than the profiteering of avaricious politicians and developers at the cost of the suffering general public.

There are three components to sustainable urban growth; environmental, economic and social. There are elements of New Urbanism which provide some environmental and social sustainability, however, to honestly look at sustainable urban growth; the foundation of all urban growth is based on the area’s transportation. As well intending as many of the participants of the New Urbanism movement are; Western society is a car culture. So the question is: what is the sustainable transportation mode of the New Urbanism movement?