Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Congress for the New Urbanism

Freeways Without Futures: CNU Is Taking Nominations!

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 21, 2013 | 2 Comments

We’re suckers for a good contest and here’s a great one: Congress for the New Urbanism is seeking video submissions to determine the most hopeless disaster of a freeway in America. Do you have a highway in your community that deserves to be torn down? An antiquated beast of vehicle throughput cutting residences off from […]

Federal Housing Administration Clears Way for More Walkable Development

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 15, 2012 | 3 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 […]

CNU Hones Its Transportation Agenda in Long Beach

By Gary Kavanagh | Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments

Preceding the start of the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference this week, the Congress for the New Urbanism met at the Renaissance Hotel across from the Long Beach Convention Center to convene their annual CNU Transportation Summit. At the summit, CNU develops its transportation agenda, including new and existing projects. Having caught the new urbanist bug in Florida […]

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

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 6, 2012 | 11 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. Last week the Congress for New […]

New Urbanists Release Principles for Sustainable Street Networks

By Ben Goldman | Jan 25, 2012 | 11 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, and […]

Federal Regulations at Odds with Demand for Urban Housing

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 26, 2011 | 2 Comments

The real estate market is undergoing the most rapid period of change in a generation — and the shift is decidedly urban. A succession of recent studies have found there is an under-supply of urban-style housing — attached and small-lot, single-family homes — on the scale of about 13 million units. On the other hand, […]

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