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Charter Awards This Year Reflect A Difficult Economy

Most of the 2011 Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism recognize projects that deal with austere times ...

The Real Problem With Community Associations

Author: Review by Doris S. Goldstein New Urban Network Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government. A book by Evan McKenzie ...

Retrofitting Suburbia: The State Of The Art

In today's challenging economy, three published new urbanist practitioners look at how to get projects going — in the suburbs ...

Robert Stern Wins The Driehaus Prize

Author: Philip Langdon It's official. Robert A.M. Stern, who has nurtured many of today's traditional architects and urbanists and at ...

Street Fight: Landscape Urbanism Versus New Urbanism

In their first substantive dialog, landscape urbanist Charles Waldheim and new urbanist Andres Duany reveal that the issue is less ...

Waldheim/Duany dialogue CNU 19

Congress for the New Urbanism Don’t miss the provocative discussion featuring Charles Waldheim and Andres Duany at CNU 19 in ...