New Urban Roswell, is a creation of Michael Hadden a resident of the Historic District in Roswell.  Michael is an avid proponent of the concepts of New Urbanism and Smart Growth.  The New Urban Roswell website strives to help bring about a discussion on how New Urbanism and Smart Growth can help the city of Roswell and the Atlanta region become a happier, healthier and more prosperous place to live, work, learn and play.  We hope that we can help empower Atlantans to make more informed decisions on where to live, shop, eat and play so that we can all have a smaller footprint on our environment.

You will find a wide variety of topics, opinions on our website from New Urbanism, Real Estate and Smart Growth to Green Living, Transit and Travel.

We are always working on ideas and looking for new ones to improve on our website.  So, come back often to see our progress.  If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to leave them here.  We would love to hear from you.  To learn more about Michael continue below.

Contributors

Michael Hadden - Owner

Michael initially became interested in the New Urbanism after architect and long time friend, Cody Patton of Patton Architects, turned him on to the book Suburban Nation written by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck.  After initially reading the book in 2003, Michael's eyes had been opened to a growing trend.  The book influenced his thinking in other areas and he branched out to look at the overall green movement which was just gaining significant momentum at the time.  

Michael decided to start blogging about green themes and started the Green Gaggle blog.  This blog eventually took the form of several other names and has ended up as New Urban Roswell.  All of the old posts for the Green Gaggle, Efficiency Solutions and Green Peaches are still on this website (if you search hard enough).  

Michael is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the Southface Institute and the Sierra Club.  He is currently working on his CNU Accretidation which should be complete in late 2010.  If you would like to contact Michael, you can reach him at michaeldhadden@gmail.com or view his profile on LinkedIn here.