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Oslo-Denver Initiative gets time at CNU 17

The Oslo-Denver Initiative on Urban Design and Climate Change will be discussed in a breakout session at the Congress for the New Urbanism’s 17th annual congress in Denver in June 2009. The session will be held at Tower Court D Sheraton Hotel Denver, 1550 Court Place, Denver, CO 80202 on Wednesday 10 June 2009 from […] Continue reading →

Cuba Tour and Charrette 2008

Cuba. ©Claus Zapfle Visit the Event website. TOUR OF CUBA & HAVANA HARBOUR CHARRETTE Tour 1 – 8 March 2008 Charrette 9 – 15 March 2008 The Norwegian chapter of C.E.U. – Council for European Urbanism – invites you to join a one week tour of three Cuban cities, Havana, Cienfuegos and Trinidad, 1 – […] Continue reading →

Symposium on Waterfront Developments 2007

C.E.U. organised a symposium on sustainable development for waterfronts in Lisbon in December 2007. The event was a collaboration with Gonçalo Cornelio da Silva of C.E.U. Portugal in partnership with the Academy of Urbanism. Waterfront developments have come to European attention not only through excessively eccentric marinas and holiday resorts, but painfully through recent flooding […] Continue reading →

Lisbon Symposium on Waterfront Developments

Visit the  Conference website. C.E.U. organised a symposium on sustainable development for waterfronts in Lisbon in December 2007. The event was a collaboration with Gonçalo Cornelio da Silva of C.E.U. Portugal in partnership with the Academy of Urbanism. A Sustainable Urbanism for Waterfront Developments Waterfront developments have come to European attention not only through excessively […] Continue reading →

Cuba Tour & International Charrette 200

24 February – 3 March 2007, La Habana, Cuba The Cuban and Norwegian chapters of C.E.U. – Council for European Urbanism held a one week  tour of three Cuban cities and UNESCO World Heritage Sites; Havana, Cienfuegos and Trinidad, from 24 February – 3 March 2007. The expert guide was Prof. Julio Cesar Perez, Faculty […] Continue reading →

Sustainable Urbanism 2006

Second International Congress November 2006, Leeds, UK The second International Congress of the C.E.U. will take place in the English city of Leeds over the 9th and 10th of November 2006, following our successful Inaugural Congress in Berlin in 2005. The Congress theme this year is Sustainable Urbanism. Over two days we will be examining […] Continue reading →

Sprawl costs billions

An article in the Sacramento Business Journal says “we are all paying a staggering price for sprawling development in this country, and that price will only go up as gas prices increase,” – “Sprawling communities need longer public roads, increase the cost of new water and sewer hookups by 20 percent to 40 percent, impose […] Continue reading →