By concentrating commercial and residential uses in one walkablecommunity, MGM is translating for the Vegas crowd the ideas from the New Urbanist movement of the 1980s.
But now, Leinberger told CNN, it appears the pendulum is beginning to swing back in favor of the type of walkablecommunity that existed long before the advent of the once fashionable suburbs in the 1940s.
By concentrating commercial and residential uses in one walkablecommunity, MGM is translating for the Vegas crowd the ideas from the New Urbanist movement of the 1980s, which spawned warm-and-fuzzy insta-communities such as the 352-acre town of Kentlands in Maryland and Walt Disney Co.