CNU20 Webcasts online

Webcasts of CNU20 speaches are now available online. So if you didn’t have the chance to attend or missed out on a session you can now catch up. This also means that the presentations held by C.E.U. in different sessions can be reviewed. You find Joanna Alimanestianu’s presentation in the Breakout Session: Resilience and Adaptation […]

Five CEU members speaking at the 20th Congress of the New Urbanism

This years CNU20 features the topics of peak oil, climate change, wealth disparity amongst others. These new challenges for praticioneers and poitics in the field of Urban Design are core themes of CEU’s work over the last years and match closely with our initiatives, like the Oslo Declaration on Climate Change and Urband Design. It […]

Analysis of Paris High-Rise Proposals catches the media

Made public on the 21st of march 2012, the CEU White Paper about three high-rise proposals for Paris already created some media reactions. After the Providence Journal took on the story, Planetizen reports about the CEU paper.

Jahrestagung des C.E.U. Deutschland 2011 in Emmendingen

Charrette zur Standortwahl für eine Hochschule Bericht von Harald Bodenschatz und Wolfgang Serbser Vom 11. bis 13. November 2011 trafen sich etwa 15 Mitglieder der deutschen Sektion des CEU (Counsil for European Urbanism) in Emmendingen bei Freiburg zu ihrer Jahrestagung, um neue Konzepte in der Hochschulbildung und die städtebaulichen Auswirkungen solcher Konzepte zu diskutieren. Am […]

CEU to review plans for new towers in Paris

Meeting with SOS Paris to share views A fact-finding committee from the Council for European Urbanism (CEU) will visit France during the last week in September to review new plans for building towers in Paris. They will share initial findings at a meeting with SOS Paris, a long-established organization specializing in architectural issues in Paris. […]
The High Line, New York

New Website for City Lovers

CityPicture aims to “make the city visible” A new web venture by Berliners Claudia Christen, Jürgen Cyranek and Rebecca Cyranek aims to make cities more visible on the web. The three feel that images are necessary to help explain theoretical concepts of the city. And indeed, the old adage that “a picture tells a thousand […]
Le Plessis-Robinson, an urban extension to Paris, still under construction.

Paris Study Tour, 28 September – 2 October 2011

The Urbanism of Paris: Old and New Traditional Neighbourhoods. Organised in collaboration with CEU – Council for European Urbanism, Norway. We will visit some of the most important historic neighbourhoods of Paris, and compare them with two recent developments based on traditional urbanism and architecture: Le Plessis-Robinson, an urban extension to Paris, still under construction. […]
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Growing Local: CNU19

The 19th annual event from the Congress for the New Urbanism CNU19 Growing Local ©Congress of the New Urbanism The annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading venue for new urbanist education, collaboration, and networking. CNU members come from around the world to discuss development practices and public policies, learn from recent […]

The City of Kashgar

An Oasis of the Silk Road on the Brink of Extinction 9.00 – 12.30, Thursday 27 January 2011 Brussels, Belgium Two years into Beijing’s ‘Kashgar Dangerous House Reform’, and the Old City of Kashgar in East Turkestan, or China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), faces near total destruction. There is a pressing need to assess […]