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In urban planning theory, "Landscape Urbanism" emerged in the late twentieth century as a critique of both unchecked suburban sprawl and the "New Urbanism" movement. New Urbanists advocate for high-density, mixed-use neighborhoods modeled on traditional town planning. They argue that a strict adherence to historical street grids and traditional building typologies can arrest the social fragmentation typically caused by sprawl, viewing architectural form and rigid spatial codes as the primary catalysts for community building. Landscape Urbanists, by contrast, contend that New Urbanism’s fixation on traditional spatial geometries masks an underlying ecological rigidity, as it imposes inflexible architectural templates onto dynamic natural topographies. Furthermore, Landscape Urbanists assert that contemporary metropolitan regions are too decentralized to be organized by fixed architectural centers, proposing instead that flexible landscape infrastructure—such as integrated stormwater wetlands and remediated industrial ecologies—should serve as the foundational framework, adapting to environmental flux rather than resisting it.

Based on the passage, advocates of New Urbanism would be most likely to endorse which one of the following statements regarding urban development?