Achieving Sustainability -- From Building to Region

By focusing development, New Urbanism promotes efficient use of infrastructure and preservation of habitats and farmland. With green building leaders, CNU is establishing new standards for green design at the neighborhood scale. Transportation plays a pivotal role in sustainability and truly efficient transportation – walking, bicycling, and transit use – is only possible where there is compact, urban form.

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Norquist Receives Ed Bacon Award for Professional Excellence : Bacon valued the complexity of urban fabric when others sought to destroy it

Submit Your Work for New Urbanism's Premier Annual Award: Charter Awards 2009 Honor the Urbanism the World Needs Now

Public Comment Now Open for LEED-ND: CNU Calls on Urbanists to Comment on the Latest Draft of the Rating System

Before Dash to Invest Billions in Transport Systems, Experts Meet to Redesign Them So They Work Better: CNU Summit shifts focus from simply moving cars to getting people efficiently where they need to go