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Evanston, IL. – John Gordon Burke Publisher Inc. has announced the release of Michael Newcomer’s Where and How We Live: A Look at New Urbanism. A city design technique first adopted over twenty years ago, new urbanism attempts to bring communities closer together by offering residential settings near and within commercial locations. Looking back at the Norman Rockwell style America, the design concept is catching on all over the country including such cities as Seaside, Florida and Columbia, Maryland. New urban communities can boast of a lower cost of living when compared to fast-paced and high density cities mainly due to the lower crime rate and less need for automobiles. While people like Seaside founder Robert Davis and architects Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe and Victor Dover have significantly influenced the practice of incorporating new urbanism ideas into city design, author Michael Newcomer has captured its importance in his latest piece of work.