In the USA a movement has been established which has a similar philosophy to ConnectedCites, but which generally focuses on new rapid transit systems. It has various names:

• Transit Oriented Development
• Smart Growth
• New Urbanism

The oldest example is the:

• Rosslyn-Ballston corridor in Virginia. Planned and built over fifty years, it is now a prosperous, mature community of high density development around subway stations, sitting within a preserved neighbourhood of single storey family housing.

There are many other examples, including:

• Addison Circle, Texas
• Ohlone-Chynoweth, San Jose, CA
• Mockingbird Station, Dallas
• Orenco, Oregon

To European eyes these developments appear normal, and quite car oriented. But by US standards they represent a radical shift away from the freeway/parking-lot/strip-mall suburbia which has been the norm since WW2.