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CNU may soon be launching a new initiative if a show-of-hands vote taken during one of the Saturday afternoon breakout sessions is any indication.

A lot of dark clouds hang over the real estate market right now. But for astute New Urbanists, there's an abundance of silver linings too.

The "Mystique of Technique" and Other Tales of the Transect

Jottings from the session with Andrés Duany on "Green Solutions Along the Transect":

The Congress for the New Urbanism isn't a political organization in the same sense as that other Congress, the one whose headquarters are in Washington instead of Chicago.

A busload of CNU attendees headed out Thursday morning to see Mueller, the New Urbanist redevelopment of Austin's former municipal airport.

The office of Robert A. M. Stern, FAIA, has posted the full text of his address to CNU XV last week in Philadelphia.

That surely gets the prize for the most provocative session title at CNU XV.

What a surprise. It turns out that from a New Urbanist perspective, there is something worse than the cul-de-sac subdivision that leaves all its inhabitants dependent on their cars.

What does this say about the importance of parking as an issue for New Urbanists?

Does New Urbanism have anything to contribute to national efforts to develop better housing for the less affluent?