The 20th Congress for the New Urbanism
05/09/2012 – 05/12/2012
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
As practitioners, associates and friends of New Urbanism gather on Florida's Gold Coast for our 20th Congress, we find a New World of challenges and opportunities before us. Our world, already beset with the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and wealth disparity, finds global economic crisis confronting us with the equivalent fury of tropical storms from old Florida lore. We step ashore facing worldwide adjustments in the financial, housing, retail, transportation, and energy markets. These storms have drastically changed how we do business in the 21st Century and are opening a "new world" of challenges and opportunities for the New Urbanism.
CNU 20 will provide an opportunity to help us confront these challenges and share interdisciplinary strategies to help us navigate through the storms. As in the past, the Congress is the ultimate venue for defining problem-solving solutions, using existing and emerging New Urbanist principles. The extraordinary economic upheaval of recent years has brought an end to the previous world of readily available capital and supercharged growth that fueled a "bigger is better" approach. The failings of this approach have created a vacuum in the world where people are now searching for an alternative paradigm. CNU 20 will focus on how New Urbanist practices, principles, and applications can fill this void and advance high quality urbanism through a more incremental, attainable, "small is beautiful" approach.
For more information, please contact:
Sandrine Milanello
Events Director
smilanello@cnu.orgBenjamin Schulman
Communications Director
bschulman@cnu.orgCongress for the New Urbanism
congress@cnu.org
