Watch Peter Calthorpe in this video excerpt from PBS' Newshour on urban strategies being used to mitigate climate change and urban heat island effects.
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CNU co-founder Peter Calthorpe joins the New York Times debate on making cities safer for pedesrtrians and cyclists:
Click here to read "It Starts with Better Design."
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CNU co-founder Peter Calthorpe writes of high-speed for California as "the investment we cannot afford not to make."
Read the whole post for the San Francisco Chronicle by clicking here.
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The 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.
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My aunt and uncle have lived in Austin for decades. I remember visiting them here once when I was 12, I think, but my memories of the physical city are nonexistent.
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A busy Friday at the 15th annual CNU Congress was sandwiched between two popular plenary sessions. Peter Calthorpe’s evening presentation updated arguments for regional visioning.
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For many CNUers, the Congress is a time to rendezvous with like-minded people, inspire each other, catch up on news, and feel motivated by how much the New Urbanist movement has accomplished.
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