Best Of Northern California Urban Design

Columnist John King offers his forecasts for best 2005 urban designs in Northern California.

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January 4, 2005, 11:00 AM PST

Among his selections: "Mountain House: California's first "new town" in decades is taking shape on the Alameda-San Joaquin county border and could eventually house 44,000 people. By 2006, we should be able to gauge whether it's an improvement on the sound-walled housing-tract norm -- or simply a repackaged form of sprawl."

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