NEW URBANISM has convenient solutions for Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. On July 2nd at the Municipal Art Society, the US Green Building Council LEED Neighborhood Development Chair Doug Farr will present a primer on many of those ideas. His book Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to “sustainable urbanism”–the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Of all the recent writings on green architecture and urbanism, Sustainable Urbanism is the most complete introduction to making walkable, sustainable, green communities.
Please join us for his only talk in New York, sponsored by CNU New York, the Municipal Art Society’s Urban Center Books and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., publishers.
BROOKLYNSPEAKS is a network of civic and community groups formed in response to the large Atlantic Yards project at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues. The group’s purpose is to inform New Yorkers about the controversial project, so that they can ask the decision-makers to move forward only with a plan that works for Brooklyn.
Atlantic Yards is a proposal by the developer Forest City Ratner to build 16 towers and an arena on a 22 acre site in Prospect Heights. Unfortunately, the plan has been created with no significant input from New Yorkers, and while development of the site could be beneficial, it is the opinion of BrooklynSpeaks that the plan voted on by state officials in December won’t work for Brooklyn.
On June 16, 2008, a coalition of Brooklyn coalition elected officials and civic groups including BrooklynSpeaks gathered on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan to launch the Campaign to Reform Atlantic Yards, an initiative to pass new legislation that would reform the governance of the Atlantic Yards project.
CNU New York Chapter Meet-Up in Austin
Porch at Threadgills World Headquarters (301 West Riverside Drive)
Thursday, April 3, 2008 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Join CNU New York at the archetypical Austin joint for a sampler of Southern Cooking and a very brief meeting on upcoming chapter activities. Well have a buffet — enough for a light dinner — at no charge.
The meet-up will be on the Porch at Threadgills World Headquarters (301 West Riverside Drive). Take a taxi or a 20 minute walk across the South Congress Bridge (thats the one with the bats), bear right for a block on Barton Springs Road and look left on Riverside Drive for Threadgills.
We look forward to seeing all New York New Urbanists there!
As the housing boom of recent decades draws to a close, Americans are looking closely at what generates real value in their houses. It is becoming clear that size, “lawyer foyers,” and number of gables don’t count any more. Get Your House Right- Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid, a new book by CNU New York Board Member Marianne Cusato and Ben Pentreath, shows how well-considered, traditional design that is appropriate to place and region can create houses that feel right and have lasting value. Through their book, Ms. Cusato and Mr. Pentreath, together with co-authors Richard F. Sammons and Léon Krier, illustrate ways to add value to homes through everyday design and details.
Marianne Cusato is the renowned designer who pioneered the Lowe’s Katrina Cottage, for which she was the winner of the first annual “People’s Design Award” from the Copper Hewitt Museum, the Nation Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. Ben Pentreath is an award-winning architectural designer based in London, where he is working on a variety of new housing developments, in particular for HRH The Prince of Wales, at Poundbury, Newquay, and Truro.
Sponsored jointly by CNU New York and the ICA&CA, the authors will discuss the topic of their new book and explore ways to achieve authentic architectural design in today’s world.
Where: Library at the General Society
20 West 44th Street
When: Friday, March 14
Reception at 6:30 pm, Lecture to begin at 7:00 pm.
Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath and Richard Sammons.
Admission is FREE for Members of the ICA&CA and employees of professional members firms:
FREE for members of the CNU; $10 for the general public.
RSVP: To reserve, please call (212) 730-9646, ext. 109.
Presentation by CNU New York Board Member Paul Whalen and Developer Arthur Zeckendorf
Fifteen Central Park West has captured the imagination of New York’s press and public like few other buildings in recent history. The project’s economic success and its high-profile location have demonstrated the continuing viability of classicism in today’s market as well as in current architectural discourse.
Whalen, a Partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, will talk about designing a modern New York building that learns from our city’s great apartment house tradition. Zeckendorf will describe the vision and financial foundation that made the project possible.
Where: Library at the General Society, 20 West 44th Street.
When: Reception at 6:30 pm, Lecture to begin at 7:00 pm.
Admission is FREE for Members of the ICA&CA and employees of professional members firms; $10 for the general public.
CNU New York is a chapter of the national Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl.
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