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Open Space Technology
Submitted by tbellino on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 2:41pm
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This session allowed participants to discuss and current and potential CNU initiatives with New Urbanist leaders.
Jennifer Hurley, President, Hurley-Franks & Associates
Jim Kumon, Designer, Miralles Associates
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Sustainable Thinking and Architectural Form
Submitted by tbellino on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 2:07pm
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Sustainable design considerations open new possibilities for architectural forms to reflect and recognize our respect for life and living processes. Blending new technologies with a deep understanding of tradition can create opportuniti... read more »
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Retail Recipes
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 2:11pm
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Developing successful retail centers is one of the more difficult aspects of New Urbanism, where many planned centers fail to attract key retailers or to meet market performance standards. Examine successful retail design and merchandi... read more »
Green Solutions Along the Transect
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 1:49pm
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A greening technique that is appropriate for T1 may not work for T5. Learn how the Transect can be used as an organizing tool to select appropriate and alternative solutions to environmental needs. Hear about projects from across the ... read more »
Envision Central Texas Open Session
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 4:33pm
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Internationally recognized regional and urban planner Peter Calthorpe, consultant for the extensive Envision Central Texas visioning project, examined the rationale for regional visioning, ECT's progress and the next steps to make the r... read more »
Affordable Housing in New Urbanism
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 4:02pm
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From a policy standpoint, there are four main approaches to affordable housing relevant to New Urbanists: Developing affordable housing using tax credits and grants; increasing affordable homeownership opportunities through programs lik... read more »
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2008 Driehaus Form-Based Code Institute Awards
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 2:26pm
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A well-written Form-Based Code can insure the agreed upon community vision is what actually gets built. This session awarded and included an in-depth analysis of the 2008 Driehaus Form-Based Code winners. Listen to an audio recording ... read more »
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Tall Towers: Purposeful Density or Loose Tower Disease?
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 11:39am
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Is the current movement of returning downtown to live in towers promoting livable cities, or are such towers a blight on urbanism. Who is right? This session showed three points of view: No tall buildings; managed districts based on spe... read more »
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Why Do Our Buildings Look Like Crap? And What Can We Do About It?
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 10:27am
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In this session, Hank Dittmar looked anew at what many call New Urbanism's Achilles' heel: making beautiful, place-appropriate buildings, the quality of our buildings. Can we improve them in spite of a housing slump? Marianne Cusato—... read more »
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Sustainable Sites and LEED-ND
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 10:19am
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This session compared and contrasted how the LEED® - Neighborhood Development rating system and ASLA Sustainable Sites Initiative strive to encourage sustainble approaches to the way we plan and develop site infrastructure and open spa... read more »
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