Submit your work for New Urbanism’s premier annual award

Charter Awards 2009 honor the urbanism the world needs now Where conventional sprawl generates enormous amounts of carbon emissions, erodes the bonds of community, and strains the connection between cities and the rural areas that help sustain them, the revival of urbanism produces places of enduring delight, value, and environmental resiliency. CNU’s Charter Awards recognize the best of that work. In doing so, the awards demonstrate how today’s urbanism strengthens communities by creating the physical setting for rich public life and by working to connect people of diverse backgrounds with housing options, equitable transportation, and access to opportunity. In recognizing design and development that strives for sustainability “without trivializing the complexity of urbanism,” the awards demonstrate how urbanism is a remedy our planet needs — a vital way to green the American Dream. CNU invites your submissions by January 20, 2009. Welcome are architectural, landscape, and urban designs or the publications, policies, plans, and codes that structure them. This year Victor Dover leads the distinguished jury that will judge entries on the extent to which they fulfill and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism. This year, submitters also have the opportunity to describe how projects advance the operating principles in the Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, found at cnu.org/canons. Please help spread the word, especially to those whose urbanism and Smart Growth you admire. Find information and forms at cnu.org/awards.