Read about fellow CNU 18 executive chair and CNU board member Ellen Dunham-Jones
and her
work with fellow new urbanists on urban design solutions for redesigning
suburbs (and retrofitting sprawl in the city too).
What metro region provides a more ideal setting for talking about both the effects of sprawl and its possible solutions? See how Atlanta's urbanists are collaborating on projects that address public health, sustainability and other issues high on the agenda at CNU18.
And explore the range of initiatives and collaborations
— from the LEED-ND green neighborhood certification system
to the highways-to-boulevards project — through which CNU is making
communities more livable and sustainable. Each contributes to the knowledge-
and expertise-base at CNU 18.
New Urbanism: Rx
for Healthy Places — a Breakthrough Collaboration
As new urbanist planning and development leaders go mainstream with proven
strategies for making communities more livable, more energy efficient
and better positioned for economic success, top health officials are promoting
these same strategies as ways to make places healthier. CNU 18 will bring
these experts together to work on making the "prescription"
for healthy, walkable, vital communities an integral part of government
policy, community planning and development industry practice. Join them
and begin putting these solutions to use to benefit you and your community.
CNU 18 honorary chair Dr. Howard Frumkin, executive chair Ellen Dunham-Jones with
CNU CEO John Norquist
Building on its leadership in promoting healthy communities, CDC is assisting
in the planning of the Congress. Dr. Howard Frumkin, Director of CDC's
National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, is honorary chair of the 18th Congress. The event's
executive chair is Ellen Dunham-Jones, CNU board member, Associate Professor
of Architecture at Georgia Tech and expert in Retrofitting Suburbia,
a fast-emerging trend that is redefining what's possible in the redevelopment
of sprawling places.
Attention Health Professionals and Local Officials
Learn what urbanists already know: the Congress is a top forum for learning,
advancing and refining the strategies and techniques for better designed,
better functioning cities and towns. For health and government officials,
the benefits are many:
Accelerate your efforts to promote healthy communities by aligning
with planning and development leaders who wrote the book on dramatic
reform and success on the ground.
Learn how applying new urbanist principles in your community can promote
active and healthy living, reduce traffic safety risks and improve emergency
response rates.
Put walkable mixed-use neighborhoods to work building greater property
value, saving tax dollars through more efficient provision of city services,
reducing carbon emissions and saving residents serious money on their
transportation expenses.
As the economy recovers and smart investors look past old energy-intensive
patterns of development, the Congress offers a sound model on which
to build enduring value and livability.
Make sure your key staff members are trained in the cutting-edge strategies
for improved economic, health and environmental outcomes.
And Georgia local officials: CNU 18's introductory seminar, NU 101,
is led by some of the biggest names in New Urbanism and is pre-approved
by the Georgia Municipal Association for continuing education credits.
