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<br />. <br /> <br />~- <br /> <br />- : : <br /> <br />-'-- : <br /> <br />Para <br /> <br /> <br />se <br /> <br />su1 <br />of <br />WJ <br />by <br />qu <br /> <br />Pave <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The 'new urbanists' are going back to the future to take the edge off edge cities. <br />They want to bring small-town charm to blighted metropolitan landscapes. <br /> <br />to <br />e" <br />th <br />gr <br />p< <br />b, <br />it <br /> <br /> <br />r< <br />f( <br />b <br /> <br />o <br />~ <br />t, <br />t <br />f <br />] <br /> <br />VIEWED FROM THE AIR, THERE'S NO APPARENT REASON <br />why a city like Phoenix. Ariz., already the seventh largest <br />in the nation, couldn't keep growing forever. Four times a <br />year, a pilot from Landi~cor, an aerial-surveying company, <br />flies over the city at 20,000 feet, snapping pictures to be <br />assembled into vast photographic maps. They show the white <br />boxes of downtown, the graceful loop of the freeways as they <br />intersect and sort themselves out by compass point, and the gleam- <br />ing roofs of suburbia stretching to the horizon in nested curves of <br />roads, streets, drives and lanes. The pictures from the end of March <br />show 5,000 more houses than the ones taken three months earlier. <br />Houses squeeze through the gap between two Indian reservations <br />and follow the highways into the desert, which they are consuming <br />at an acre an hour, Excluding federal land, the only thing standing <br />in the way of Phoenix's swallowing the rest of the state, says <br /> <br />JOHN HUMBLE <br />Porches, gables and picket fences-all brand new at Kentlands <br /> <br />WONDERFUL TOWN <br /> <br />Some people consider such communities <br /> <br />too cute, but cuteness is the glue that holds <br /> <br />them together at five units an acre <br /> <br />Michael Fmeld, director of the Joint Urban Design Program of <br />Arizona State University, is Tucson. <br />Unless, that is, you subscribe to the view of former mayor Terry <br />Goddard, that phoenix is approaching the marginal disutility of <br />suburban sprawl. This is the point at which each new subdivision <br /> <br />42 NEW S WEE K MAY '5, 1995 <br />