CNU New York

CNU New York Is Pleased To Announce

A Talk On Sustainable Urbanism

By CNU Board Member Doug Farr

Where: The Municipal Art Society / The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue at 51st Street, New York, New York 10022

When: Wednesday July 2nd, 2008
6 PM Reception, 6:30 Lecture

RSVP: info@cnu-ny.org

Seating is limited

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.

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