CNU XV

Description: CNU has partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. Green Building Council to certify neighborhood development projects through the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system. The pilot version of the certification program began in early 2007. In Philadel... read more »

Description: Explore innovative applications of the Charter of the New Urbanism to comprehensive plans. This session will review how to de- emphasize land use and focus on typology, character, and condition of place. Using case studies from across the country, the panelists will highlight the a... read more »

Description: Metropolitan areas supporting multiple school districts offer families of means the opportunity to relocate to the suburbs, isolating themselves from lower-income families. Combined with location and site requirements, current K-12 school policy and design contribute to income segr... read more »

Description: The public realm of a town or city can be designed to enhance both the sociability and the environmental quality of a place. A series of case studies will illustrate the thesis that landscape is not cosmetic, but intrinsic to the form and health of a village, town, or city. ... read more »

Description: This session explores the many dimensions of multiway boulevards, from their early history, evolution, adaptation, and fall into disfavor in American cities to their rediscovered appropriateness today as complex, multi-modal places. Three new multiway boulevards designed by Citywor... read more »

Description: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has a well-deserved, nationally renowned reputation for progressive County-wide planning. This session will summarize the process by which both developers and municipal leaders of this Central Pennsylvania County learned to embrace the vision of “L... read more »

Description: What consequences emerge when homeowners' associations, developers, or special taxing districts privately own or maintain our streets, parks and other apparently public spaces? Can real civic life exist within privatized space, and can residents abandon their gated-subdivision ment... read more »

Description: Pennsylvania is slowly transitioning from an industrial past to a knowledge economy,and the state’s development patterns—slow growth, fast sprawl, struggling cities, and older suburbs—undermine its competitive future. Building on the Brookings Institution’s work in Pennsylv... read more »

Description: More and more cities across the country are adopting form-based codes. The process of form-based code (including SmartCode) preparation is well-documented, but what happens after official adoption? Experienced form-based code practitioners will discuss the issues of completing a co... read more »

Description: Cultural, formal and conceptual adaptations are not unfamiliar to the New Urbanism. This session will present Latin American development case studies involving the dissemination of academic information, the design and implementation of projects near historic centers, and the retrof... read more »