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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: CNU members were treated to a special video message from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, who has been a leading figure in promoting sustainable building through the practice of traditional architecture and urbanism. The Prince received an Athena Medal for his lifetime dedic... read more »

Description: The Congress for the New Urbanism's Charter Awards program recognizes today's best work in urban design, architecture, development, and placemaking. Each year CNU convenes a jury of expert urbanists to review submissions and select the winning entries that best embody and advance t... read more »

Description: Gigantism: Threat to Urbanism There are few better to speak on counterproductive interventions in the American City than Robert Caro. As Lyndon Johnson’s preeminent biographer he is no stranger to Austin or urbanism. His Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, The Power... read more »

Description: CNU XVI opens with a native Texan whose embrace of New Urbanism left a lasting mark on the nation's public housing. Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, helped enact the HOPE VI program that helped transform the face of public ho... read more »

Description: Many real estate markets are in crisis, but not the New Urbanism. Leading developers of town centers, traditional neighborhood development, and mixed-use urban infill projects use the power of urbanism to capture regional demand, secure public incentives, command higher rents, and ... read more »