Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Congress for the New Urbanism

Federal Housing Administration Clears Way for More Walkable Development

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 15, 2012 | No Comments

Over the last five years America has seen an historic housing downturn, but the prevailing trend hasn’t sapped demand for walkable, urban development, especially in many larger metros. Until recently, however, Federal Housing Administration regulations made it difficult for developers to provide the kind of housing consumers are demanding. Now, thanks in large part to the […]

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12 Freeways to Watch (‘Cause They Might Be Gone Soon)

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 6, 2012 | No Comments

If you make your home on the Louisiana coastline, upstate New York or the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, chances are you live near a highway that really has it coming. It’s big. It’s ugly. It goes right through city neighborhoods. And it just might be coming down soon. Latest week the Congress for New […]

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New Urbanists Release Principles for Sustainable Street Networks

By Ben Goldman | Jan 26, 2012 | No Comments

At the Transportation Research Board’s 91st annual meeting here in DC, it’s hard to miss the booth handing out copies of a bright blue pamphlet filled with illustrations of busy tree-lined streets, where bicyclists and buses work their way through a bustling urban bazaar. The booth is the Congress for New Urbanism’s “occupation” of TRB, […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: Highway Removal

By Elizabeth Press | Mar 29, 2011 | No Comments

In this week’s episode of “Moving Beyond the Automobile,” Streetfilms takes you on a guided tour of past, present and future highway removal projects with John Norquist of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Some of the most well-known highway removals in America — like New York City’s West Side Highway and San Francisco’s Embarcadero […]

Making Streets for Walking: Dan Burden on Reforming Design Standards

By Noah Kazis | Apr 8, 2010 | 28 Comments

A template for an urban street in "Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares." Source: Claire Vlach, Bottomley Design & Planning. One of the foundational documents in our country’s history of car-centric street design is what’s known as the Green Book. These engineering guidelines, which have been published in various editions by the American Association of State Highway […]

New Urbanism: Built to Last

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

As Aaron and Sarah have noted, the Congress for the New Urbanism is in the midst of its annual meeting in Denver. This spiffy short is the winner of this year’s CNU 17 video contest. Created by independents John Paget of Paget Films and Drew Ward and Chris Elisara of First+Main Media, "Built to Last," […]

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