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As population continues to grow and urbanize at unprecedented rates, [[new urbanism]] and [[smart growth]] techniques are implemented to create a transition into developing environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable cities. Smart Growth and New Urbanism's principles include [[walkability]], mixed-use development, comfortable high-density design, land conservation, [[social equity]], and economic diversity. Mixed-use communities work to fight [[gentrification]] with [[affordable housing]] to promote social equity, decrease [[automobile dependency]] to lower use of [[fossil fuel]]s, and promote a [[localized economy]]. Walkable communities have a 38% higher average GDP per capita than less walkable urban metros (Leinberger, Lynch). By combining economic, environmental, and social sustainability, cities will become equitable, resilient, and more appealing than [[urban sprawl]] that [[overexploitation|overuse]]s [[land use|land]], promotes [[automobile]] use, and segregates the population economically.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/foot-traffic-ahead.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 July 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102837/http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/foot-traffic-ahead.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="control">{{cite journal|author=Lovelace, E.H.|title=Control of urban expansion: the Lincoln, Nebraska experience|journal=[[Journal of the American Institute of Planners]]|year=1965|volume=31:4|issue=4|pages=348–52|author-link=Eldridge Lovelace|doi=10.1080/01944366508978191}}</ref>