new urbanism

new urbansim in Orlando

Surprisingly, Florida – a state known in urban planning textbooks as the epicenter for sprawl and the real estate crash – is home to the nation’s most important New Urbanist developments.[read more]

Lean. Guerilla. Incremental. Vernacular. Tactical. These are all words Andrés Duany used to describe the “new, new urbanism” at the CNU-FL Statewide meeting this past week at the University of Miami. He identified two conditions that should dramatically shift the practice of all planners and urban designers: pervasive impoverishment and the psychological shifts of impending climate change.[read more]

Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, told us he was at CNU20 to preach a little fire and brimstone:  transportation planner to new urbanist. While I wouldn’t call it brimstone, he definitely spoke passionately about real issues that need to be...[read more]

It’s been roughly 48 hours since the last session at CNU 20 and I’ve been home about 24 of those hours with a sore throat and bruised heels from all the great debates, ideas, dances, food and fellowship that I encountered at the Congress.There were so many diverse viewpoints this year that it has taken me to this point to be able to sit...[read more]

Again, we're streaming today's plenary featuring Richard Florida live from Palm Beach starting at 5:30 until 6:30 pm EST. Don't miss it!Richard Florida, author of the best-selling Rise of the Creative Class and The Great Reset, speaks at CNU 20 on May 11. Florida is the founder of the Creative Class Group, currently heads the Martin...[read more]

From 9am to 12am, we'll be livestreaming the CNU session on the future of the new urbanist movement, featuring visionary thought leaders like Andres Duany and Jennifer Hurley. Don't miss it![read more]

The home-building boom that saw suburban lot after suburban lot popping up with the same over-bloated house—the McMansion—has now left us in over our collective heads with houses too large for one family’s pocketbook.  And now we have lot after lot of gigantic empty shells of neglected homes.  So it is time to start...[read more]

 We here at CNU have just released the full CNU 20 schedule!  Begin to map out your must-attend tours, breakout sessions, plenaries, and advanced-level 202 courses.  Register for CNU 20 now and prepare to gain insights into lessons learned from top practitioners and take away the necessary tools to enact meaningful...[read more]

This sign has no words, but I think it symbolizes community. Credit: Flickr user The Waving Cat I had the pleasure this week of going to Atlanta for work training. I had the opportunity to fly out of my home airport (Piedmont Triad International), ride the MARTA to and from the airport and hotel and stay in the heart of Midtown at the...[read more]

Are there any new ideas on cities? This was one of the provocative questions asked by San Francisco Chronicle design critic John King, Hon. ASLA, at the 2011 ASLA annual meeting general session. For the two master landscape architects on the panel, Martha Schwartz, FASLA, and Laurie Olin, FASLA; Charles Waldheim, Affiliate...[read more]

  As this post is published, I am on vacation in Victoria, British Columbia, a wonderful city that - among other good things - is home to Dockside Green, which some people are calling the greenest development in the world.  At least with respect to new, highly urban developments-in-progress, they may have a case...[read more]

"New Urbanism," a movement that encourages the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use cities, is in part responsible for Britain's decline in car use. Photo by Laura Ward. Britain has been experiencing a decline in car use, reports the U.K.’s Independent. Between 2004 and 2008, British cities saw a nine percent...[read more]