Northwest Landing, Washington

The Weyerhaeuser company developed a self-contained, 3,000-acre master-planned community at this site, surrounding the old company town of DuPont (built in 1906 to house workers at the explosives plant, which is now gone). Designed by the developer Peter Calthorpe, Northwest Landing is like other "new urbanism" developments, such as Disney's town of Celebration, Florida, designed like a neighborhood village, where traditional homes are packed next to each other, close to the street, in a pedestrian-friendly community (cars are parked in alleys behind the houses). Ideally, residents could walk to work, and a corporate beltway was developed around the town, though most people still drive to work, elsewhere.