Events & Articles

Events
 

CNU 20 - The New World
West Palm Beach
May 9 - 12, 2012
The New World confronts the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and growing wealth disparity, along with worldwide adjustments in the financial, housing, retail, transportation, and energy markets. Taken collectively, these challenges are drastically changing how we do business in the 21st Century, and opening new opportunities for the New Urbanism. These challenges engage CNU in its core mission of excellence in urban design, urban reinvestment, and town planning, by generating new ideas about development, implementation, education, coding, sustainability, and problem-solving using New Urbanist principles. CNU believes this twentieth anniversary is an optimum moment to analyze our mission and practices. Rediscover, rethink, and redefine the Congress, once again making it the most influential planning event in the US and the world.

 

CNU 20 - The New World - Call for Submissions!
The Art of the New Urbanism
CNU 20: Exhibition and Publication
May 9-12, 2012
For more information please contact Charles Bohl & James Dougherty

 
Bicycling Magazine Names America's Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities - Miami #44
Miami has been named #44 out of the top 50 cities in the U.S. for bicycling. Special note is made of Miami as we have moved from one of the worst to one of the best.
 
Prefab Housing for Haitian Earthquake Surviviors
Miami architect Andres Duany is working with InnoVida Holdings, a Florida-based manufacturer of building materials, to produce thousands of prefabricated houses for Haitians made homeless by the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake.
 
Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children just released in paperback
Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia, offering a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz nostalgia to the residents’ surprisingly active sex life. But this is more than just a romp through a retirement paradise; Blechman traces the history of the age-segregated retirement phenomenon, and travels to Arizona to show what has happened to the pioneering developments after decades of segregation. A fascinating blend of serious history, social commentary, and hilarious, engaging reportage, Leisureville is an important book on a major, underreported trend.
 
Letter to President Barack Obama dated April 6, 2009
from the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism
Subject: Building a sustainable future in the current economic crisis: A conflict, or an opportunity
 
Stimulus Bill Chart
Attached is a chart of state-by-state funding (provided by AASHTO) from the transportation portion of the recovery bill. It shows how much each state and urban area will receive in STP funds (which can be used for more than just roads and bridges despite their messaging) and the amount of transit capital funding and fixed guideway modernization funding will go to each urban and rural area.
 
Articles & Reports
 
The Better Block: a Living Charrette
 
SunRail moves closer to approval
by myFox Orlando, June 2011
 
Complete Streets will help curb pedestrian deaths
by Transportation for America, June 2011
 
My Word: Safety's key to growth
by Bruce Stephenson - Orlando Sentinel
 
Dangerous By Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths (and Making Great Neighborhoods)
by Transportation for America, November 2009
 
Florida Legislative Documents regarding rail
Summary of Proposed Statewide Rail Transit
Florida Rail Bill
 
Florida Department of Transportation and Department of Community Affairs Mobility Fee Report
December 2009
 
Is a train revamp just the ticket? State fights crowding
Palm Beach Post, October 19, 2009
 
Gas Prices May Revive Cities
by Bret Schulte US News & World Report,
July 17, 2008
 
Off the Grid?
by Charlotte Crane Florida Trend, July 2007
 
Trailblazer Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk talks about Miami 21
by Matthew Haggman Miami Herald, July 2, 2007
 
Hurricane-Proof and Affordable-Katrina Cottage
by Charlotte Crane Florida Trend, June 2007
 
The Visionaries
by By Doug MacCash on Nola.com, December 10, 2006
 
Update on Florida House Bill 391
by Doris Goldstein, Attorney
May 10, 2006
 
Duany: Apply New Urbanism to Affordable Housing
Orlando Business Journal, January 13, 2006
 
Luxury is as luxury does
How Charlotte cleaned Orlando's corporate clock

by Bruce Stephenson
Orlando Sentinel, November 17, 2005
 
ARCHITECTURE: A building apart
It looks like something ancient and strange, a medieval abbey or Byzantine church, dropped among the cozy little Bauhaus boxes of the University of Miami's School of Architecture.
Miami Herald, October 16, 2005
 
Mississippi Renewal Forum Creates Regional Planning Guidelines for Rebuilding Gulf Coast Communities (10/13/05)
 
Hurricane Planning pros offer their help
Sun Herald, September 21, 2005
New Urbanists see chance to end sprawl. They may be a Dream Team, of sorts, the gold standard in city planning.
 
Experimental community of Seaside is a model for weathering storms: Village built tough as nails, residents say
Sun-Sentinel, July 12, 2005
 
Editorial by CNU Member Bruce Stephenson
Orlando Sentinel, March 24, 2005
 

Past Statewide Meetings

 
CNU Florida's Fifth Statewide Meeting
St. Petersburg, Florida
January 28 - 29, 2010
 
Fifth Statewide Meeting rescheduled from 2009 to 2010 due to economic climate
 
CNU Florida's Fourth Statewide Meeting
Winter Park
January 24 - 25, 2008
 
CNU Florida's Third Statewide Meeting
Winter Park
January 18 – 19, 2007
 
CNU Florida's Second Statewide Meeting
Winter Park
January 12 – 13, 2006
 
CNU Florida's First Statewide Meeting
Winter Park
January 12 - 14, 2005
 

 

 

Past Events (and related Materials)

CNU Florida Chapter Meet-up at CNU 19 - Madison, WI
June 3, 2011

Magical Mystery Tour
May 16 – 18, 2010 priort to CNU 18
Join the "Magical Mystery Tour" which will precede the CNU in Atlanta.

Leon Krier - Book Signing, Lecture, and Discussion on The Architecture of Community
April 2 & 3, 2010
Alys Beach and Seaside

Seaside Prize Weekend
January 29-30, 2010
Each year the Seaside Institute awards the Seaside Prize to individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the quality and character of our communities. The event is a weekend celebration honoring the 2010 Seaside Prize Recipient Allan B. Jacobs.

A Day of Inspiration at Windsor
Vero Beach
July 26, 2007

New Urbanism Special Focus: Developing at Town Center Today
Winter Springs
January 17, 2007

CNU Short Course: Transportation in the New Urbanism
Sponsored by the City of Port St. Lucie
April 20, 2006 All Day

CNU Florida's Second Statewide Meeting
Winter Park
January 12 - 13, 2006

METROPOLIS Tropical Green
Miami
February 9 - 10, 2006

CNU Florida's First Statewide Meeting
Winter Park
January 13 - 14, 2005

Award Recipients