CNU Salons
What I remember most about CNU 17
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 12:20am*The tours. Boulder's success in building a prosperous, pedestrian-friendly downtown and its utter failure in promoting affordable housing.
CNU17 - Demographic Shifts and the Economics of New Urbanism
Submitted by Chris Clair on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 3:37pmThe session was billed as "New Urbanism and the Continuing Great Demographic Shift," but probably to no one's surprise to the hundred or so people packed into the room it turned into the Jim Kunstler
Cities' "Green Dividend" there for the taking (#CNU17)
Submitted by Jon Davis on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 11:31amThe long-held idea that cities are an environmental bane is completely and utterly wrong. Cities are the key to reducing humanity’s contributions to global warming and land despoliation.
#CNU17 Selling the Green Urban Advantage - Hard Truths About Getting the Word Out
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 6:33pmNew Urbanists are going to have to be part of the effort to shrink America's carbon footprint, reduce VMT, and hold the line on climate change. But they're going to have to do it without talking about carbon, VMT, or climate change.
Napkin Sketch meets Google Earth
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 5:17pmThis is why we come to #CNU17: Chatting last night at happy hour with Sinclair Black, Austin architect-planner (and CNU Athena medal winner), we met the new planning manager in tiny neighboring Hutto,
Selling The Green Urban Advantage
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 3:27pmHere's the condensed takeaway of this #CNU17 session: If CNU wants to have an impact on climate change, it needs to communicate with the public in something other than wonk-planner-insider speak.
#CNU17 Numbers Matter for New Urbanism
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:25pmNow is the time to quantify the advantages of New Urbanism. "Numbers matter," Peter Calthorpe told the CNU17 morning plenary on "The Green Dividend Friday.
#CNU17 What I Learned at the Meta-Physical Planning Meeting
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 11:58amArchitecture is not psychotherapy! That was one of the first points made during the CNU17 session on "Meta-Physical Planning: the World We Want." But the people who took part quickly got into issues of intimacy and spirituality, of masculinity and femininity.
But then the conversation moved to the question of
GIS mapping in Australia shows how transit reduces auto dependence
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 9:53amGIS mapping in Melbourne, Australia, on patterns of car ownership shows that transit works: the closer one is to a rail transit line, the less need there is for a car.
CNU17 – Landing in Denver
Submitted by Chris Clair on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 1:19amCNU 17 has opened on an optimistic note. Denver is a city born of and grown with optimism, like so many other Western cities.