CNU 19 features strong speakers, tours, sessions
CNU 19 is less than three months away. Tours and 202s are filling quickly, so register now!
What can be better than spending a few days in Madison in early June? Browsing the farmers market on the Capitol Square, strolling State Street or kicking back with a Wisconsin made beverage (beer or milk!) at the Memorial Union Terrace overlooking Lake Mendota; these are all wonderful urban experiences available at the Congress, which promises great speakers, tours, and 202s.
This year’s theme is “Growing Local.” The Congress will explore linkages between urban communities and local food production, as well as infill development, retrofitting suburbia, coding for LEED-ND, the 4th Place, John Nolen’s lessons for new urbanism, and walkable thoroughfares.
Madison has its design roots in the work of John Nolen and Frank Lloyd Wright, and today actively promotes new urbanism principles throughout the local transect. With on- and off-street bike routes, context-sensitive street design and neighborhood retail along sidewalks. Tours will include Middleton Hills, a development planned by Andres Duany and built to the scale of John Nolen’s 1920s masterpiece University Heights, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, urban agriculture, and a tour of Madison’s Transect.
Speakers include:
• Will Allen, founder of Growing Power and Wisconsin’s most urban farmer
• Ed Glaeser, a conservative and very urbanist professor of Economics at Harvard
• Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of HUD
• William Cronon, professor of Geography, History and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Earl Blumenauer, Congressman, House of Representatives
Come to the congress to learn from and network with architects, planners, developers, landscape architects, elected and public officials, engineers and others representing a broad swath of those promoting new urbanism.
New urbanism — it just performs better. From improved energy efficiency to better emergency response to healthier cities, new urbanism has proven to be lighter on the pocketbook and a better built environment in which to live. It all comes together at CNU 19.
Visit www.cnu19.org to register and learn more about this exciting Congress, to be held June 1-4. See you in Madison!
