Creating Enduring Neighborhoods

A growing movement, New Urbanism recognizes walkable, human-scaled neighborhoods as the building blocks of sustainable communities and regions. The Charter of the New Urbanism articulates the movement’s principles and defines the essential qualities of urban places from the scale of the region to the individual building.

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CNU News


Free Summer Flick: The Next Urbanism is Not the New Urbanism: This month's free preview from the CNU 18 webcast library is a blockbuster

CNU 19 Call for Input is Closed: A special thank you to all of those who took the time to submit ideas and provide comments and votes. Your ideas will help make CNU 19 in Madison a great success.

CNU Coalition Study Finds Restored Avenue Would Meet Traffic Needs, Stimulate Rebirth in New Orleans : Removing Claiborne freeway, restoring boulevard would add just minutes to trips and return blighted blocks to valuable use

CNU fire code proposals shot down; appeal filed: ICC voters choose confrontation over cooperation in street design discussion