Placeshakers and Newsmakers
The Congress for the New Urbanism’s annual convergence of giganto ideas and fine-grained pragmatism wrapped Saturday night with a party in a bar. The four days in West Palm Beach, Florida, marked the
20th anniversary of such gatherings, most of which also involved spill-over debates in venues with liquor licenses. As usual, the CNU20 agenda was packed with passion and ambition, with a smidgeon of apocalyptic visioning to dampen out-of-control hopefulness. So what’s on the minds of the NU designers, planners and fellow travelers these days? Well, first of all, frustration that everyone on the planet has not yet fully embraced New Urbanists’ prescriptions for fixing sprawl, poverty, climate change, public health, energy policy, auto-dependent transportation, education, water management issues, infrastructure crises and the other 100 other items on our to-do list.
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