• Freeway teardown restores the grid

    Milwaukee's Park East Corridor, on the national stage this summer, ultimately changed how the city views itself.
    Note: The transformation of Park East in Milwaukee was a 2003 Charter Awards winner. Submissions for the 2020 Charter Awards will be open until February 3, 2020. When it comes to in-city freeways, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Park East Freeway planners in Milwaukee during the...Read more

  • The Charter Awards at 20: Looking back, moving forward

    The year’s awards will celebrate design that takes New Urbanism to the next level and inspires a new generation of urbanists.
    Urban planner Geoff Dyer, CNU-A, is chairing CNU’s twentieth Charter Awards jury in 2020. CNU has officially opened up the period of submissions for awards in this special year. This year, the jurors are especially looking for projects that emphasize the importance of design to New Urbanism, and...Read more

  • Placemaking is going places: 20 years of transportation-related award winners

    From transit-oriented development to Tactical Urbanism, transportation themes have resounded through the first two decades of the CNU Charter Awards.
    The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Awards, which highlight the best in urban design in the United States and around the world, have celebrated good interdisciplinary design since 2001. As the Charter Awards head into their 20th year, a reflection on some of our past awards shows how...Read more