CNU XVI

Description: This session allowed participants to discuss and current and potential CNU initiatives with New Urbanist leaders. Jennifer Hurley, President, Hurley-Franks & Associates Jim Kumon, Designer, Miralles Associates ... read more »

Description: Sustainable design considerations open new possibilities for architectural forms to reflect and recognize our respect for life and living processes. Blending new technologies with a deep understanding of tradition can create opportunities to architecturally explore rational and mor... read more »

Description: Developing successful retail centers is one of the more difficult aspects of New Urbanism, where many planned centers fail to attract key retailers or to meet market performance standards. Examine successful retail design and merchandising principles and consider how they can be a... read more »

Description: A greening technique that is appropriate for T1 may not work for T5. Learn how the Transect can be used as an organizing tool to select appropriate and alternative solutions to environmental needs. Hear about projects from across the Transect and learn how your "plug-ins" contrib... read more »

Description: Internationally recognized regional and urban planner Peter Calthorpe, consultant for the extensive Envision Central Texas visioning project, examined the rationale for regional visioning, ECT's progress and the next steps to make the region's vision a reality. Attendees learned ho... read more »

Description: From a policy standpoint, there are four main approaches to affordable housing relevant to New Urbanists: Developing affordable housing using tax credits and grants; increasing affordable homeownership opportunities through programs like Habitat; encouraging resident-controlled lim... read more »

Description: A well-written Form-Based Code can insure the agreed upon community vision is what actually gets built. This session awarded and included an in-depth analysis of the 2008 Driehaus Form-Based Code winners. Listen to an audio recording of this session. Richard Bernhardt, Execu... read more »

Description: Is the current movement of returning downtown to live in towers promoting livable cities, or are such towers a blight on urbanism. Who is right? This session showed three points of view: No tall buildings; managed districts based on specific criteria, i.e., viewsheds, etc.; and the... read more »

Description: In this session, Hank Dittmar looked anew at what many call New Urbanism's Achilles' heel: making beautiful, place-appropriate buildings, the quality of our buildings. Can we improve them in spite of a housing slump? Marianne Cusato—of Katrina Cottages fame, co-author of Get You... read more »

Description: This session compared and contrasted how the LEED® - Neighborhood Development rating system and ASLA Sustainable Sites Initiative strive to encourage sustainble approaches to the way we plan and develop site infrastructure and open spaces at both macro- and micro-planning levels. ... read more »