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Originally Posted by Crawford

Unfortunately, no. I can't think of any urban neighborhoods anywhere being built right now with a North End/Greenwich Village typology.

Yes, you will get the New Urbanist Disneyeque neighborhoods, but always with lots of parking, too wide streets, too much separation of use, not enough consistent density, etc.

The closest I can think of would be the new build Hasidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn, but they're ugly and kind of exclusionary. From an urbanistic perspective they're great though. No parking provisions, and just wall-to-wall midrise housing. Some other neighborhoods, like Williamsburg, and parts of Upper Manhattan, come close, but are urban infill, not whole-scale neighborhood building.

The reason you don't see such neighborhoods being built is because they're generally illegal. Zoning codes generally require parking, fire codes generally require wider streets, etc. We've regulated our land to death, and can't build neighborhoods anymore. You need something really funky like the Hasidic population to get something really out-of-the-norm.

Not to mention that these neighborhoods were built in a time before cities were really into planning beyond a street level. Do you have overhead power lines? The power company will need 10-15' on each side of the pole - in perpetuity. Now there is underground fiber to deal with. Does it rain in your city? Where does that go?