CNU Membership

Why Join CNU?

As people recognize the shortcomings of conventional growth patterns, New Urbanism offers a way to create enduring places of diversity and character. People are sending a clear message: They want vibrant and safe neighborhoods where it’s possible to walk to stores, work, schools, and places of worship. They want better housing and transportation choices and enjoyable public spaces. They want to feel proud of their communities.

New Urbanism turns these dreams into reality by offering new solutions for our built environment. It makes walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods the building blocks of towns, cities, and metropolitan regions. It adapts the principles and techniques of traditional city and town planning to improve today’s communities. It shows how social responsibility and environmental sensitivity can be good business.

As a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, you will be our partner in spreading New Urbanism. Our respected publications, website, and conferences will give you the news and resources you need to achieve your goals and advance your career. You will have unequalled opportunities to work with the top names in the field to develop a new vision for our built environment.

Learn how to put positive strategies into practice in your community and your business.

Join us and help build the vision.

Membership Benefits

As a CNU member, you are our partner in spreading New Urbanism. This is our organization, and it's a forum for your ideas and challenges—only with your participation can we live up to our full potential. CNU provides opportunities for you to make a difference, and our respected publications, website, and conferences will give you the news and resources you need to achieve your goals and advance your career.

Learn more about CNU Membership Benefits.

Membership Levels

CNU offers individual and corporate membership, as well as membership in chapters around the country. Learn more about CNU Membership Levels.

Give a Gift Membership

Help someone you care about become an urbanist. Whether it's a colleague, local official or someone else who shapes the civic agenda in your city or town, your gift of a CNU membership will give them a needed advantage as our economy seeks sources of real value.

They will enjoy the benefits of membership and begin learning more about CNU's principles and how they improve street networks, TODs, form-based codes and retrofitting suburbia. Welcome them into our growing movement of committed individuals and organizations dedicated to restoring good urbanism to America's built environment.

Download a gift membership form (as an editable MS Word form or PDF) and return it to CNU by e-mail to jjones@cnu.org or by fax at 312-346-3323 or by mail to 140 S. Dearborn, Suite 404, Chicago, IL 60603.

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Downloadable Membership Form (PDF 40 KB)