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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: 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 »

Description: Community design affects the quality of local water resources, demand for water, and cost of water infrastructure. This session linked the basic relationships that bind water resources and site, neighborhood, and community design decisions. Speakers provided case studies and polic... read more »

Description: The relationship between cities and climate change seems little understood, even as the world awakens to global warming and exploding urban populations. New Urbanism must show that compact connected cities and suburbs with efficient buildings are the convenient remedy for the incon... read more »

Description: This session will offer insights into myths, challenges, and rays of light associated with the complex subject of transportation network planning. It will highlight both the British and American perspectives on networks. Breakout groups of session attendees will discuss a variety ... read more »

Description: Big box retail stores, university buildings, hospital campuses, "mega-churches" and sports stadiums are all affecting development patterns within our cities, towns, neighborhoods, blocks and streets. The immense presence of these specialized building types is profound and cannot b... read more »