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Latino New Urbanism: Lessons Learned From the Southwest
Submitted by zoe on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 10:40am
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Latino immigrants joining native-born Mexican-American citizens in the U.S. bring different uses of urban space to the existing built environment. Their homes, ciudades, pueblos, and ranchos are physically and socially different from th... read more »
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Smart Growth Streets/Emergency Responders April 2008 Workshop
Submitted by Jon Davis on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 1:10pm
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Two dozen engineers, fire marshals and planners gathered in Austin, Texas, on April 1 and 2, 2008, for the first workshop of a multi-year CNU project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to find street design solutions enc... read more »
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The Dilemma of Male Space
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 6:13pm
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6/2/06 4:00pm-5:00pm
Family rooms instead of dens. Clean garages. Women in cigar bars and boxing clubs. American females have commandeered, or at least infiltrated, nearly every part of the private and public realm. After the terrible c... read more »
New Life for Dead Malls: Converting Greyfields to Mixed-Use Town Centers
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 6:03pm
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6/2/06 4:00pm-5:00pm
While greyfield malls can act as a blight on a community, they also have great potential to be repositioned as valuable mixed-use developments. This session will build on CNU's greyfields study, examining the opport... read more »
Guilds: Building and Design
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 5:56pm
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6/2/06 4:00pm-5:00pm
This session will explain how guilds can help developers live up to the expectations created by the beautiful watercolor renderings generated at planning charrettes. Learn how the New Urban Guild is bringing togeth... read more »
We Got It! Implementing LEED-ND
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 5:40pm
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6/3/06 4:00pm-5:00pm
LEED for Neighborhood Developments is part of the natural evolution of the green building movement, expanding sustainability standards to the scale of the neighborhood. While current green building standards often f... read more »
Learning to Love Density
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 5:30pm
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6/3/06 4:00pm-5:00pm
Density is the key to creating vibrant, walkable communities. However, building with density has become a challenge to both the developer and designer. To successfully permit and construct a project with higher dens... read more »
Jobs We Shouldn't Have Taken
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 5:25pm
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6/3/06 4:00pm-5:00pm
At the beginning of a project, developer and designer may view it with rose-colored glasses. They see great potential but ignore the danger signs lurking beneath the surface, such as optimistic cost projections, a d... read more »
The Providence Story
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 5:00pm
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6/2/06 2:30pm-3:30pm
Providence, CNU XIV's host city, has gained national acclaim as a model for downtown revitalization and smart infill development. Once a depressed, post-industrial city, Providence has uncovered rivers, moved railro... read more »
Sprawl Brawl
Submitted by gmyrek on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 4:57pm
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6/2/06 2:30pm-3:30pm
Robert Bruegmann's newly published book, Sprawl: A Compact History, is nothing short of an avid defense of every new urbanist's worst nightmare -- unplanned, socially dysfunctional, automobile-dependent development ... read more »