CNU News

Norquist Receives Ed Bacon Award for Professional Excellence

Bacon valued the complexity of urban fabric when others sought to destroy it

December 8, 2008

CNU President & CEO John Norquist was presented with the Ed Bacon Award for Professional Excellence on December 2nd in Philadelphia. The award's namesake, Ed Bacon, was the Executive Director of the...

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Charter Awards 2009 Honor the Urbanism the World Needs Now

November 21, 2008

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 reviva...

Public Comment Now Open for LEED-ND

CNU Calls on Urbanists to Comment on the Latest Draft of the Rating System

November 17, 2008

It is clearer than ever that green building and community form shouldn't go it alone. A powerful strategy for achieving environmental sustainability is incorporating high-performance buildings in comp...

Before Dash to Invest Billions in Transport Systems, Experts Meet to Redesign Them So They Work Better

CNU Summit shifts focus from simply moving cars to getting people efficiently where they need to go

November 6, 2008

As Democratic President-Elect Barack Obama and conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks add their support to calls from across the political spectrum for a fast-acting economic stimulus buil...