CNU New York

Archtober & CNU New York

Left: Graphic showing fiscal return for individual parcels in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Right: Aerial photo showing the existing site and building configuration. Images courtesy of Joe Minicozzi, Urban3.

IN OUR ARCHTOBER SERIES: With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen push back against government regulation, it makes sense to consider a new balance sheet approach to granting development approvals. Such an approach will screen for more compact, centrally located, high-value buildings that pay back the municipality’s initial infrastructure investment much more quickly.

This fiscally driven regulatory strategy is simple and nonideological. By “following the money,” it achieves Smart Growth / New Urbanism out-comes without invoking either term. The approach has the potential to reduce and even eliminate cumbersome and highly subjective development processes and regulations.

Peter Katz, author of The New Urbanism (McGraw-Hill 1994), was the founding director of the Congress for the New Urbanism and aco-founder of the Form-Based Codes Institute. He writes and consults on matters of community planning, real estate marketing and development regulation.

WHEN & WHERE: Wednesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm, in the Mohawk showroom at 71 West 23rd Street, 18th floor, New York, New York 10010. Reception with wine and cheese at 6:30 pm.

COST & RSVP: $8, free for CNU and Empire State Future members. Attendance limited to 100. Please RSVP @ CNU.org (http://bit.ly/cnukatz)

In partnership with Empire State Future and Archtober.

Download the announcement for Peter Katz's talk

Archtober & CNU New York: Principles of Urban Design

Broad Street, New York, New York, circa 1915.

ONE OF OUR FOUR ARCHTOBER events is a walking tour that uses the streets of New York City to illustrate the principles of urbanism and urban design. This will be the newest tour in a series given by John Massengale for the Institute for Classical Art & Architecture (ICAA) and the universities of Miami, Notre Dame and Georgia Tech.

Massengale is a Board member of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), the founding Board Chair of CNU New York, and a former Board member of the ICAA and Federated Conservationists of Westchester County (FCWC). Co-author with Robert A.M. Stern of New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture & Urbanism 1890-1915 (Rizzoli, 1983), he is writing Street Design, The Art & Practice of Making Complete Streets (J. Wiley & Sons, 2013) with Victor Dover. An architect and urbanist, Massengale has won awards for architecture, urban design, architectural history and historic preservation.

WHEN & WHERE: The tour will meet Saturday, October 27 at 9:15 am on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street at the head of Broad Street, and will end at 12:15, with a Dutch Treat lunch at a location to be determined for anyone who wishes to stay.

Tour limited to 20. Please RSVP @ http://bit.ly/cnumass

AIA credits applied for.

CNU New York in Archtober

Next month is the second annual Archtober, a month-long festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions. The series is a great opportunity to learn and celebrate all the places and buildings that make New York City such a significant place to live, work, play, and visit.

CNU New York will have four events:

• October 6, Tactical Urbanism Demonstration, Mike Lydon & Street Plans Collaborative
• October 17, Smart Development Raises Revenues, Peter Katz*
• October 24, Principles of Urban Retail, Robert J. Gibbs
• October 27, Principles of Urban Design, A New York Walking Tour, John Massengale

More information soon. For a full list of Archtober events check here: http://www.archtober.org/calendar

* Peter Katz's talk co-sponsored by Empire State Future

See Dan Burden Speak at CNU New York's Retreat at Chautauqua

Register at https://www.cnu.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=30

Friday October 12 [11:00am] - Sunday October 14 [12:00pm], 2012
Athenaeum Hotel, Chautauqua, New York

Photo credit: Walkable and Livable Communities Institute

Dan Burden |  as Executive Director and co-founder of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, Mr. Burden has - over the last 35 years - helped 3,500 communities become more livable and walkable; was the nation’s first State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator (Florida Department of Transportation- for 16 years); and was named by TIME Magazine in 2001 as “one of the six most important civic innovators in the world.”

CNU | The Congress for the New Urbanism is an internationally recognized organization that promotes and fosters the best practices of urban design and planning.

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Revised Program: CNU New York Retreat at Chautauqua

Draft Program 1.14 | Welcome to the CNU New York Retreat at Chautauqua!

“New Urbanism is the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.” – The New York Times

Since 1991, the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) has worked for the development of walkable and sustainable cities, towns and neighborhoods and against the spread of auto-based sprawl.

Each year CNU holds an annual Congress where New Urbanist practitioners (planners, architects, traffic engineers, public officials and housing and retail experts) share their experiences with other people interested in learning how to improve their communities. In June 2014, the 22^nd Congress (CNU 22) will be held in Buffalo, New York. 

This Retreat is to enable attendees from Upstate New York and the nearby Great Lakes states to learn what New Urbanism is and how it can improve the built environment and economy of cities, towns and villages.  We need your help this weekend to identify the issues that will be the core of the 2014 Congress agenda.