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CNU Co-Founder Duany designs housing for displaced Haitians
Submitted by rgallentine on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 8:17pm.Architect, planner and CNU Co-founder Andres Duany has designed a prefabricated hous
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Form Based Code and Recovery of Hydrologic Function in Urbanized Watersheds
Submitted by drbork on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 1:41pm.We are a research team from Virginia Tech.
Our postulates:
Building more sustainable cities is a good thing
Much new re-development and densification is being based on NU principles
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NU Community Promotes Social Networks
Submitted by abanks on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 7:57pm.
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New Urbanism: A Community Building, Economically Sensible, and Environmentally Conscious Solution
Submitted by abanks on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 3:47pm.Isabell Cowles of the Huffington Post's Article entitled "Can New Urbanism Save America?" encapsulates
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Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland - read before Transportation Summit Nov 4-6 in Portland
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 4:19pm.For those coming to the CNU Transportation Summit Nov 4-6 in Portland, OR http://www.cnu.org/transportation2009, I'd like to recommend that you read the discussion on Planetizen titled Beloved and Aba
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CNU's fire code proposals up today in Baltimore; watch the hearings online
Submitted by Jon Davis on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 4:14pm.BALTIMORE – The International Code Council hearings are an arena in which the (mostly) irresistible force of brevity meets the immovable agenda: hundreds of proposed additions, deletions, correct
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LEED-ND Dilemma
Submitted by burlesona on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:31pm.Hi everyone,
I'm working on a project in the Houston region, and we're interested in going for LEED-ND certification. I've run into a problem, however, and I was wondering if anyone had constructive thoughts on what we might be able to do about it. We're land planners primarily, and haven't done any... read more »
Spatial Enclosure Analysis with GIS
Submitted by Mike.Zimney on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 8:40pm.I've been using GIS to help analyze spatial enclosure of existing development by using street centerline data and building footprint data.
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Pulitzer winner doesn't have to look Farr for good urbanism
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 2:49pm.Not all New Urbanism occurs in greenfields or sprawl mall retrofits. It also occurs in cities, strengthening existing urban fabrics.
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Smart growth must become more demanding, more community-oriented, and greener (literally)
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 3:46pm.Is it any wonder that neighbors continue to oppose density (oops, I meant "compact development") when what we have been giving them is lousy? We smart growth advocates have gotten lazy.
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