The Developer Saving Childhood Joy — With Help From the ‘New Urbanism’

Play is the most enriching and educational activity around, which is why it is so key to child development. And why one entrepreneur worked so hard, for so long, to bring it back.

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A New Urbanist-style street at Seaside, Florida. Michael E. Arth via Wikimedia Commons CC4.0

Children running around, playing games, staying out till the streetlights come on.

That was entrepreneur Charles Brewer’s childhood — and dream. To make it happen in modern-day America, he developed Glenwood Park at Atlanta, a neighborhood that hewed to the tenets of “New Urbanism.” That meant it had “town houses, offices, retail, walkable streets, a nice town square, and a park,” Mr. Brewer said.

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