CNU 20 AIA Learning Objectives
Athena Medal Awards Plenary: The Uniqueness of Urban Design
Learning Objective 1: Discover differences and similarities between town planning and urban design.
Learning Objective 2: Discuss ways to adequately address issues of increasing scale, size and density.
Learning Objective 3: How to blend individual architecture and create private spaces in an ever changing cityscape
Learning Objective 4: Discuss how to combine high-rise towers with mid or low rise, high-density fabric to satisfy the economic requirements of the contemporary city.
AIA Credits: 1
Opening Plenary: Twenty Years of the CNU: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Learning Objective 1: Discuss the biggest CNU accomplishments and challenges from the past two decades.
Learning Objective 2: Learn how ideas such as the charrette, the transect, and form-based codes have transformed New Urbanism over the past twenty years.
Learning Objective 3: Identify and discuss planning challenges for the coming years, such as reestablishing urbanist principles and opposition to movements such as complete streets and transportation enhancements.
Learning Objective 4: Lay the groundwork for the next twenty years of New Urbanism.
AIA Credits: 1
Saturday Morning Plenary Featuring Leon Krier
Learning Objective 1: Understand the principles and techniques or traditional architecture and planning.
Learning Objective 2: Understand the root causes of non contextual developments.
Learning Objective 3: Learn to design and build today embracing equitable social ideals, cultural heritage, and spatially humane places.
Learning Objective 4: Use Krier's large scale developments as leading examples in creating livable communities.
AIA Credits: 1.25
202 E: Principles of Urban Retail Planning & Development
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about new retail trends in shopper demographics, including: the post-recession economy, young families, empty nesters, and tourism spending.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will review shopping center typologies and SmartCode applications for corner stores and convenience, neighborhood, community, regional, and lifestyle centers.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how these retail trends and typologies have applications for downtowns, including: merchandising plans, anchors, street and parking, and leasing and marketing.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will review case studies from West Palm Beach and Lake Worth, FL and Charleston, SC.
AIA Credits: 3
202 J: How to Lease a Town Center with Proven Results- The Restaurant Effect
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how to optimize restaurant spaces and locations
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn the proper physical programming of a town center
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how to create the appropriate supporting mix of experiences (and price-points) that answer the wants and needs of various end-users
Learning Objective 4: Participant will learn the intelligent phases of a Town Center project
AIA Credits: 3
202 A: CNU/ITE Recommended Practice, Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
Learning Objective 1: Working understanding of the technical scope of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)/Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares Manual
Learning Objective 2: Working understanding of how to use the ITE/CNU Manual to create more walkable, healthy, and sustainable streets
Learning Objective 3: An exploration of how to engage local stakeholders to initiate a reinvention of a conventional road into walkable urban thoroughfare, ranging from a formal planning and schematic design process to an informal “better block” initiative demonstrating early transformation
Learning Objective 4: An exploration of strategies on how to secure the adoption of ITE/CNU Manual and other related context sensitive solutions (CSS) design criteria into local and state roadway design manuals, subdivision ordinances, zoning codes, and other similar regulations
AIA Credits: 3
202 F: Traffic Safety and Urban Design
Learning Objective 1: Attendees will learn the history of street design, particularly how rural design principles have dominated the landscape for the past 50 years.
Learning Objective 2: Attendees will learn about the relationship between street design, urban form and travel safety.
Learning Objective 3: Attendees will learn how to balance the needs of both pedestrians and motorists to create streets that are both functional and walkable.
Learning Objective 4: Attendees will learn relevant statistics relating to traffic safety and urban design, and how these numbers shift as a result of physical changes to the street.
AIA Credits: 3
202 B: SmartCode Calibration Workshop
Learning Objective 1: Explain the process of urban analysis that is necessary as the first step in constructing a form based code.
Learning Objective 2: Assess the critical need for thoroughfare calming and retrofitting to encourage pedestrians and cyclists, and plan for appropriate connectivity that can reduce VMT and CO production.
Learning Objective 3: Describe the methods of implementing Transect-based, form-based codes at the local scale.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will begin to understand how to employ a Form-Based Code to define appropriate community types, including methods appropriate for sprawl repair.
AIA Credits: 4
202 H: Smart Growth A to Z
Learning Objective 1: Achieve a comprehensive understanding of the full range of smart growth principles and practices
Learning Objective 2: Learn the impacts of smart growth thinking on land planning and urban design techniques
Learning Objective 3: Explore the ways that increased connectivity and traditional street design can create more sustainable, walkable communities
Learning Objective 4: Learn the full range of smart growth prescriptions from the scale of the building to the scale of the region
AIA Credits: 3
Space, the First but Not Final Frontier: Analyzing space, uses, and transportation
Learning Objective 1: Provide an understanding of different types of urban squares, and how planning these squares can be achieved using using objective categories and indicators of urban quality of space.
Learning Objective 2: Provide an understanding of the implications of building places that possess many of the qualities that make New Urbanism so desirable, but also marginalize them with other qualities that prioritize
automobility in order to meet the demands of conventional traffic engineering standards.
Learning Objective 3: Provide an understanding of what constitutes a comprehensive plan, the critical nature nature of street plans, and the legal powers a municipality can use to employ to implement them.
Learning Objective 4: Provide an understanding of the history of space and the splitting of communal property into private and public spaces, and how this effects modern urbanism.
AIA Credits: 1.25
To the Developing World and Back Again: The International application of New Urbanism
Learning Objective 1: Provide an understanding of the residential neighborhood continuum and discreteness in the city of Kolkata from tangible and intangible standpoints. And also relate city structure and built forms through physical evidences and artistic constructs.
Learning Objective 2: Provide an understanding of Sustainable Development Zones as envisioned by
Jaigopal G. Rao, and evaluate its viability in terms of economic, social and political realities.
Learning Objective 3: Provide an understanding of the effects of New Urbanism in New Delhi and sets a potential path for increased engagement.
Learning Objective 4: Provide an understanding of traditional architectural culture in contemporary urban planning by comparing two rural Canadian towns: Sylvian Lake, and Lacombe.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Friday Night Plenary with Richard Florida
Learning Objective 1: How to foster the needs of those participating in the new "creative" economy in an urban community.
Learning Objective 2: The sense of place necessary to attract members of the creative class.
Learning Objective 3: Florida's "creative class" and the direct implications to the urban environment.
Learning Objective 4: The contemporary history of the urban rejuvenation created by the creative class.
AIA Credits: 1
New Urbanism 101
Learning Objective 1: AIA members will learn the theoretical underpinnings and real world application of the Transect as a design tool.
Learning Objective 2: AIA members will learn the necessity and principles of sustainable urban design.
Learning Objective 3: AIA members will learn the principles and design concepts of affordable housing in New Urban communities.
Learning Objective 4: AIA members will learn the process of retrofitting suburbs with a keen eye on public health and welfare.
AIA Credits: 3
The Next Generation of New Urbanists: A One-Day Congress
AIA Credits: 8
2012 Charter Awards
AIA Credits: 1.5
Open Source Congress
AIA Credits: 3
Open Source Congress
AIA Credits: 6.25
202 C: Sprawl Retrofit: Corridors as the Thread That Tie Everything Together
AIA Credits: 3
202 D: Planning & Redevelopment Strategies for Streets Intersecting Main Street
Learning Objective 1: How to use Main Street Program to develop a publicly supported vision for corridor
redevelopment
Learning Objective 2: How special assessment districts can be used as an alternative funding source for public infrastructure and streetscape improvements
Learning Objective 3: How TIF revenues can be leveraged for matching loans and grant programs
Learning Objective 4: Strategies for converting high traffic corridors into neighborhood-like streets
AIA Credits: 3
202 I: The Criticality of Quality Architecture - Adding Value Through Exceptional Design
Learning Objective 1: This session will pass on to developers the value that good architecture provides.
Learning Objective 2: During this course, town architects will exchange ideas between one another regarding their procedures and how they provide their services.
Learning Objective 3: Developers and architects will have a better understanding of the design review process.
Learning Objective 4: At the end of this course, developers will see the worth of Town Architects as a vehicle for getting good architecture.
AIA Credits: 3
Why We Write: Prominent New Urbanist Authors Discuss Their Classic NU Books and Current Works, and the Critical Importance of Writing to the Movement
Learning Objective 1: Learn about the impact of path-breaking books related to New Urbanism from the authors of books that shaped the early movement and the awareness of New Urbanism by the public and professional audiences
Learning Objective 2: Learn how authors get their work published in a variety of mediums
Learning Objective 3: Explore the many goals and objectives underlying publishing in a variety of formats, e.g., educational, strategic, marketing, pragmatic (best practices), narrative, etc.
Learning Objective 4: Learn about other authors and their experiences with the publishing world
AIA Credits: 1.25
Urban Freeways: Devastation and Opportunity
Learning Objective 1: Strategies to create neighborhoods and communities that are livable and accessible
Learning Objective 2: How to mitigate dependency on unsustainable sources of energy with better street network connectivity and regional transportation design
Learning Objective 3: How to structure a public campaign that demonstrates how urban freeway replacement improves air and water quality
Learning Objective 4: Participants should be able to define the negative impacts of an urban freeway in a variety of contexts
AIA Credits: 1.25
Where is the Market Taking Us?
Learning Objective 1: Participants will gain a perspective from market experts which will contribute to the success of future projects
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be better able to judge the mix of uses and housing types that are likely to succeed in new projects
Learning Objective 3: Participants will gain knowledge of retail trends that will inform their future town center and main street designs
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn about housing types that will meet the emotional needs of future residents
AIA Credits: 1.25
Small is Beautiful: Local economic networks of the pre-auto era
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about the historical progression of small scale business development in cities, in terms of locational patterns, types of businesses, and their interdependencies.
Learning Objective 2: This session will offer participants relevant examples of initiatives by government, the non-profit sector, and business groups to foster small, independent business growth – focusing on how that growth supports good urbanism.
Learning Objective 3: This session will offer participants the ability to compare and contrast different business development strategies throughout the years and their consequences on the urban fabric
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how good "placemaking strategies" can be re-instilled into present-day business developments.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Pro Formas for the Rest of Us
Learning Objective 1: Learn the basic tool for understanding a project's feasibility and profitability, the pro forma.
Learning Objective 2: Learn how important is the price of land or the allowed density within the overall project is.
Learning Objective 3: Use an infill rental housing project to practice the use of pro-formas.
Learning Objective 4: Learn to test a range of real world problems, delayed entitlements, construction cost overruns, and changes in financing
AIA Credits: 1.25
The Real Deal: Implemented lncremental Urbanism
Learning Objective 1: Through the use of example projects, participants will recognize that site selection and project programming must be considered on a different scale, such as individual small lots or phased development (as opposed to land assembly), in existing developed areas but still be cognizant of the larger community design and urban planning issues.
Learning Objective 2: For all attendees and their future projects, utilizing and optimizing existing infrastructure will be critical criteria for the efficient use of resources – locational, natural, and energy – and support accessibility in the form of safety and mobility.
Learning Objective 3: The geographic diversity of participants will automatically disseminate the concepts of incremental urbanism through the range of practice areas as participants observe a variety of building types and projects from new construction to adaptive re-use in different market and climatic conditions.
Learning Objective 4: To give a more complete understanding of the changing economic conditions for projects in the very near future, the session attendees will be able to assess development problems often outside the scope of architectural design projects, such as financing, legal approvals, and construction phasing, and how those challenges were overcome in the example projects.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Form-Based Economic Development on Main Street
Learning Objective 1: How to establish a market-driven development program that can be translated from plan to form-based code and then through infrastructure design
Learning Objective 2: How to mitigate NIMBY forces through form-based coding techniques that make it
possible to utilize administrative approvals for site plans after zoning is in
place
Learning Objective 3: How to structure a public-private partnership for city participation in the
investment of incremental scale urbanism on main street
Learning Objective 4: Strategies to make single building or small scale infill easy for owner-occupiers
AIA Credits: 1.25
Moving Lifelong Communities to Scale
Learning Objective 1: Assess the nation’s current housing, transportation and healthcare infrastructure in the aging population.
Learning Objective 2: Assess policy changes that have been made only at a local level.
Learning Objective 3: Look at the national policy changes necessary to move innovation in neighborhood based care to scale in the areas of Flexible Long Term Care, Housing Finance to Support Housing Choice, and Accessible Environments
Learning Objective 4: Assess policy and lifelong communities on a national level.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Mechanical vs. Passive Technology: Looking for Balance in Building Science
Learning Objective 1: Construction choices in building new and refrofitting buildings to be more energy conserving
Learning Objective 2: Material options available for a sustainable future.
Learning Objective 3: Learn about emission control and cost benefit analysis.
Learning Objective 4: Monitoring performance of technological systems.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Rainwater-In-Context Speed Presentations
Learning Objective 1: How stormwater regulations can negatively, or positively affect the form of the building, the block and the neighborhood.
Learning Objective 2: Specific design solutions for satisfying both environmental and cultural concerns of the built environment.
Learning Objective 3: How to be proactive as a professional in influencing surface water runoff regulations.
Learning Objective 4: How to integrate stormwater professionals, landscape architects and urban designers into a complete design team.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Too Much Water or Too Little? Using the Landscape to Advance Regional Sustainability Without Destroying Urbanism: A Florida Transect
Learning Objective 1: Attendees will learn how to move beyond the landscape urbanism debate and recognize landscape techniques that advance sustainability without undermining urbanism.
Learning Objective 2: Attendees will be able to recognize how the usefulness of different techniques varies along the transect.
Learning Objective 3: Attendees will be able to explain how sustainable urbanism fits into a regional context and what the tradeoffs of reduced urbanism mean to a sustainable region effort.
Learning Objective 4: Attendees will be able to explain how various landscape elements are interrelated in achieving sustainability across the transect of the typical Florida urban area.
AIA Credits: 1.25
The Secret Life of Trees
Learning Objective 1: Participants will gain insight to appropriate street tree species and installations depending upon their context and region.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn some basic do's and don'ts of urban landscaping.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will experience a wide range of urban landscape treatments and assess their impact on urbanism.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will hear nationwide best practices in urban and new development landscaping.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Why Did We Stop Walking & How do We Start Again? The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Learning Objective 1: Learn about the social and physical changes that occured to the built environment, specifically the street, in the last 50 years.
Learning Objective 2: Discuss Peter Norton's new book, "Fighting Traffic."
Learning Objective 3: The social reconstruction of streets as places only for cars.
Learning Objective 4: Discuss possibilities of socially and physically reconstructing streets to include people.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Making Urban Facades
Learning Objective 1: Composition techniques and assemblage of elements
Learning Objective 2: Design strategies and manipulation of materials, color and plane
Learning Objective 3: History of building facades
Learning Objective 4: The role of the vertical surface in the definition of the public realm
AIA Credits: 1.25
Multifamily Residential Building Types for an Enhanced Public Realm
Learning Objective 1: Course participants will understand the components of a successful conventional multi-family development and what is necessary to create a tradable institutional asset that at the same time that still serves the goals of walkable urbanism.
Learning Objective 2: Course participants will be able to distinguish the variety of multifamily building types by size, parking load, unit mix and other defining characteristics.
Learning Objective 3: Course participants will understand building code and other regulatory limitations to the design and operation of multi-family buildings.
Learning Objective 4: Course participants will be capable of discerning the options for market-appropriate multi-family building types that can serve particular urban design goals in a masterplan or development.
AIA Credits: 1.25
The Reality of Live-Work Today
Learning Objective 1: An understanding of the lexicon of live-work: work-use intensity types, proximity types, and project types
Learning Objective 2: Familiarity with the range of live-work types as they exist at different points on the transect
Learning Objective 3: An understanding of how developers view live-work, and how it can be an important tool to jump-start a town center or revitalizing mixed-use node
Learning Objective 4: An understanding of how live-work is viewed by building officials and by planning staff under both Euclidean Zoning and Form-Based Coding
AIA Credits: 1.25
Time is on Our Side
Learning Objective 1: An understanding of how a dense mix of diverse uses and building types in a walkable urban form provides an efficient and flexible context for development, re-development over time, accommodating economic, technological or demographic changes.
Learning Objective 2: An understanding of the development and re-development strategies that allow the compression of the time required to realize the positive fiscal, economic and social benefits of compact, mixed-use development.
Learning Objective 3: An understanding of how a physical and regulatory framework can compress or accelerate the positive fiscal, economic and social benefits of compact, mixed-use development.
Learning Objective 4: Identification of the regulatory and political hurdles that must be addressed to establish an appropriate balance between flexibility and predictability of development/re-development.
AIA Credits: 1.25
From Research to Practice: What’s missing?
Learning Objective 1: Assess gaps in research and practice.
Learning Objective 2: Learn to fill the gaps that occur between research and practice of various problems by example.
Learning Objective 3: Discuss future initiatives.
Learning Objective 4: Engage with audience members on past and future practice issues, and how to solve them.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Havana: Paradigm of a Caribbean City
Learning Objective 1: Analyze the evolvolution of Havana over five centuries as a harmonious, spatially identifiable city with a traditional, yet pragmatic urban plan.
Learning Objective 2: Discuss the present-day layout of the city of Havana could seem haphazard due to its patchwork design pattern of ‘remnants,' but upon further inspection the stitch-work of its organization becomes more evident.
Learning Objective 3: Learn about the composition can be attributed to the diverse leyes (laws) and ordenanzas (codes) that over time have both been informed by and, in turn, shaped the city’s complex layout.
Learning Objective 4: Analyze the relevance of those inherited or home grown design concepts, and their adaptability to 21st century challenges and opportunities which sustain physical, cultural, and spiritual traditions.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Achieving Sustainable Communities
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how sustainable community design can be applied at the citywide and regional scale.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about efforts by US Housing and Urban Development to promote sustainability in municipalities and regions.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how Department of Defense dollars can be used to leverage sustainable planning resources for a sizable city.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn will learn how planning for transit and transit oriented development can be applied to a city that is sorely in need of both.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Palm Beach Urban Gardens - SOLD OUT!
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to explain the effects of urban gardens in community and town planning
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to describe the principles and strategies that should be considered when planning gardens in urban areas
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to examine the impact of urban gardens in property values
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to understand the role of landscape elements and demonstrate ability to select appropriate elements for a given area
AIA Credits: 2
Abacoa
Learning Objective 1: At the end of the program participants will have greater insight into the planning and development of a TND.
Learning Objective 2: At the end of the program participants will have learned lessons in the importance of continued public education as it relates to Smart Growth and redevelopment.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn valuable lessons relating to the impact market and economic forces play in implementing a long range town development project.
Learning Objective 4: Prticipants will learn the value of continued municipal oversight and cooperation in implementing a project like Abacoa.
AIA Credits: 4
Delray Beach: "Style without Attitude"
AIA Credits: 4
Clematis Street Walking Tour (Thursday)
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to evaluate the urban design impacts of a major historic preservation adaptive reuse project in the state of Florida through firsthand experience of the interiors, exteriors and context
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to understand how the historic development of an urban downtown since 1894 has enhanced the quality of life in the area
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to assess how the recent history of 20 years of strong mayor’s policies has impacted the urban fabric of downtown’s historic main district
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to recognize how historic design techniques should be applied today to create successful urban design environments
AIA Credits: 1.5
Historic Palm Beach Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to evaluate the effects of incorporating green space into the urban fabric and evaluate how one small plaza can represent the transect: from urban to rural
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to explain the urban design influence of Addison Mizner on Palm Beach
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to understand how mixed use developed in early Palm Beach and how it has been sustained with a mixture of apartments, retail and office uses
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to evaluate how one and two story urban village of Major Alley at 13 units per acre compares to adjacent condominium towers as single object buildings
AIA Credits: 2
Arts Tour: Norton Museum and Armory Art Center - CANCELLED
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to understand how the arts play a role in community building
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to discuss how historic buildings can be adaptively reused for civic uses
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to evaluate how a large institutional use relates to its residential context
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to understand how the arts play a vital role in children education and lifelong learning
AIA Credits: 3
CityPlace: 12 Years After Sponsored by Carlton Fields - SOLD OUT
Learning Objective 1: At the end of the program participants will have greater insight into public/private development partnerships.
Learning Objective 2: At the end of the program participants will learn how a local government has an important role in preserving its built history and fostering redevelopment.
Learning Objective 3: This program will provide specific insight into hsitoric preservation efforts of the city and specifically the historic church which is the centerpiece of CityPlace.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how retailers and retail managers have met the challenges of a changing economy, a maturing city, and shifting markets at CityPlace.
AIA Credits: 1.5
CityPlace/Clematis Street Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to evaluate the City’s efforts to link Clematis Street and City Place, and further discuss opportunities to enhance this connection with the City’s urban planner
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about the public/private partnership development process of CityPlace and the urban design features from the local architect that was part of the Elkus & Manfredi team
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to experience the historic Clematis Street and understand how its historic development has affected the quality of life in the area
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to assess how urban planning programs implemented by the four strong mayors from the last 20 years have impacted the urban fabric of downtown’s historic main district
AIA Credits: 3
Bike Tour of Palm Beach - SOLD OUT!
Learning Objective 1: Palm Beach is known for its world class architecture. Guest will learn about each of our "Fab Four Architects" and bike by examples of their works.
Learning Objective 2: Guests will learn the architectural features they are known for and be able to identify their works.
Learning Objective 3: Addison Mizner brought the eclectic mediterrainian revival style of architecture to our island in 1919 and gave us "our look". Mizner is considered a pioneer in urban design. Guests will learn about his life and & why this was the only style of architecture he designed.
Learning Objective 4: Guests will learn what Palm Beach does to protect its world class architecture.
AIA Credits: 2
Historic Neighborhoods and Bed & Breakfasts Tour
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to assess how the historical background, character and attributes of individual historic properties relate to the community as a whole
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to understand how the historic development of an urban downtown since 1894 has enhanced the quality of life in the area
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to assess how the recent history of 20 years of strong mayor's policies has impacted the urban fabric of downtown's historic main district
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to recognize how historic design techniques should be applied today to create successful urban design environments
AIA Credits: 3
Worth Avenue: After-Hours Street-Level Merchandising Tour - SOLD OUT!
Learning Objective 1: Participants will gain first-hand urban merchandising tips and experience.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn of the triumphs and struggles of one of America's most notable shopping streets.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will explore the unique shopping vias and discuss how the architecture, the climate, and the clientele all combine to create Worth Avenue.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will hear how Palm Beach is coping with the economic downturn and its effect on retail.
AIA Credits: 2
Clematis Street Walking Tour (Saturday)
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to evaluate the urban design impacts of a major historic preservation adaptive reuse project in the state of Florida through firsthand experience of the interiors, exteriors and context
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to understand how the historic development of an urban downtown since 1894 has enhanced the quality of life in the area
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to assess how the recent history of 20 years of strong mayor’s policies has impacted the urban fabric of downtown’s historic main district
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to recognize how historic design techniques should be applied today to create successful urban design environments
AIA Credits: 1.5
Treasure Coast Tour: Ft. Pierce and Stuart
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how a citizen-driven, well-illustrated, new urbanist, charrette-based redevelopment master plan was developed and the power of such plans to overcome even the most difficult redevelopment challenges
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn strategies behind how the vertical and horizontal infrastructure was paid for and built
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how to sustain local elected and citizen activist leadership and its importance in keeping redevelopment efforts alive over the years and consistent with the Citizens’ Master Plan
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn the importance and discipline of a new urbanist form-based code in delivering a built environment consistent with the vision and illustrations included in the Citizens’ Master Plan
AIA Credits: 6.5
Bike Tour of Juno Beach and Jupiter A-1-A recreation corridor along the beautiful coast. - CANCELLED
Learning Objective 1: At the end of the bike tour, participants will be able to understand through first-hand experience of this best practice, the value of the Comprehensive Plan (Master Planning of the community) and how its goals and objectives give clear guidance to the planning and design staff and how it allows staff to take the initiative to find funding sources and implement.
Learning Objective 2: At tthe end of the bike tour, participants will be able to understand through first-hand experience of this best practice, the value of working with all levels of the community, i.e. county, cities, private foundation, to work on creating a master plan (in this case: a regional recreational corridor) and how it leads to implementation.
Learning Objective 3: At the end of the bike tour, participants will be able to understand through first-hand experience of this best practice, why streets and public places should be convenient, safe, comfortable, and interesting to the pedestrian and bicyclist. Properly designed, they encourage walking and bicycling in the community and allow neighbors to get to know each other and help keep the community safer by providing more eyes on the street and public places.
Learning Objective 4: At the end of the bike tour, participants will be able to understand through first-hand experience of this best practice, why the physical organization of the region should be supported by a framework of transportation alternatives. This recreational A-1-A Corridor maximizes pedestrian and bicycle access and mobility throughout the region.
AIA Credits: 3
Windsor - SOLD OUT!
Learning Objective 1: Introduction to form-based codes
Learning Objective 2: Principles and techniques of sustainable urban design
Learning Objective 3: Passive design response to climatic conditions
Learning Objective 4: Construction techniques in response to inclement coastal weather conditions
AIA Credits: 8
The Paradox of Emerging Cities
Learning Objective 1: Historical context of three rapidly expanding cities: Dubai, Tel Aviv, and Xiamen.
Learning Objective 2: Morphological response to high density development
Learning Objective 3: Sustainable development and town planning overseas
Learning Objective 4: Passive design reponse to extreme climatic conditions
AIA Credits: 1.25
Seminal New Urbanism in the Sunshine State: Critique of Florida legacy projects Seaside, Baldwin Park, and Mizner Park, and how they are shaping development in 2012 and beyond
Learning Objective 1: Critically examine Seaside, the first new urban town.
Learning Objective 2: Critically examine Mizner Park, the first total redevelopment of a shopping mall into a town center.
Learning Objective 3: Critically examine Baldwin Park, the first redevelopment of a military base into a new urban neighborhood.
Learning Objective 4: Discuss ways to successfully implement similar projects in different places.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Understanding the Role of Sustainable Urbanism in the Conservative Agenda
Learning Objective 1: To be able to identify the elements of the agenda for achieving Sustainable Urbanism that would appeal to conservative individuals or groups.
Learning Objective 2: To be able to communicate these common elements in a manner that does not discourage the support of conservatives.
Learning Objective 3: To be able to reject inaccurate, unfair or misleading information offered up by conservative opponents without alienating conservatives as a group.
Learning Objective 4: To be able to discuss other aspects of the Sustainable Urban agenda that conservatives may question or disagree with, without alienating conservatives as a group.
AIA Credits: 1.25
New Urbanism and Historic Preservation: Collaboration Strategies
Learning Objective 1: Understand the management of growth and change within designated historic districts and how it accords with or differs from New Urbanist management of TNDs over time.
Learning Objective 2: Become informed about “best practices” in both fields, including a range of responses to the issue of preserving the character of valued places, both historic and relatively recent.
Learning Objective 3: Consider issues of new building in historic settings or ongoing growth of TNDs in relation to preservation, sustainability, and local/regional character.
Learning Objective 4: Become better informed designers and public advocates on issues of historic preservation and its relation to contemporary New Urbanist architectural and urban planning practice.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Seaside 30th Anniversary: Architecture can transcend style
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to comprehend how New Urbanism principles have been applied using a case study
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how different codes can be enacted to implement change in a community
Learning Objective 3: Participants will understand what financial planning tools are necessary for executing a new urbanist design
Learning Objective 4: Participants will understand the relationship between sustainability principles and design by analyzing the Seaside case study
AIA Credits: 1.25
A Brief History of the New World
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to comprehend the structural, social, and economic trends of present-day Latin American cities by analyzing their historical roots.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about the historical roots of Latin American architecture and urbanism
Learning Objective 3: Participants will analyze how planning principles are/are not being applied to present-day Latin American cities
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how design and historical events/trends effect place by analyzing case studies
AIA Credits: 1.25
Hispaniola: Birthplace of the Latin American City
Learning Objective 1: Discuss the history, including the discovery of Hispanola.
Learning Objective 2: Analyze the cultural heritage Spanish left behind in the form of town layouts.
Learning Objective 3: Examine Dominican and Haitian architectural styles especially Haiti, which has blended French and southern United States Victorian architectural styles over a gridiron urban pattern in its cities
Learning Objective 4: Explore recent interventions and projects in Santo Domingo and Haiti.
AIA Credits: 1.25
The New Town of Cayalá, Guatemala
Learning Objective 1: Analyze and discuss the design of Leon Krier's new South American development, Cayala.
Learning Objective 2: Analyze and discuss the development of Leon Krier's new South American development, Cayala.
Learning Objective 3: Analyze and discuss the history of Leon Krier's new South American development, Cayala.
Learning Objective 4: Introduce alternative retail methods and best practices contributing to the implementation of safekeeping techniques for New Urbanism communities in Central America
AIA Credits: 1.25
Two Traditions of Latin American Urbanism
Learning Objective 1: After this session, participants will be able to comprehend the highly influential impact that local laws have on urban design
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to compare and contrast different methods of urban street design by different cultures in Latin America
Learning Objective 3: In this session, the participant will analyze the relationship between spatial phenomena and historical events
Learning Objective 4: Highly organized, grid-like, street patterns will be compared and contrasted to topo-responsive, organic, street designs. By doing so, the participant will be able to understand the effect that terrain has on street planning and how this, historically, has been managed.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Philanthropy and the New Urbanism
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how art can be used to revitalize cities
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about funding source that can help to rebuilt downtowns and neighborhoods
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn about philanthropic organizations that are participating in the New Urbanism and smart growth movements
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn about how streets and public spaces can benefit from philanthropic funding
AIA Credits: 1.25
Today's Best Form-Based Codes
Learning Objective 1: The critical components of any Form-Based Code if it is to be successful
Learning Objective 2: On-the-ground lessons gained by cities that successfully wrote and adopted excellent
Form-Based Codes
Learning Objective 3: How to tailor a Form-Based Code to the needs of the community, i.e. how codes differ based on the local circumstances
Learning Objective 4: What features of an excellent Form-Based Code make it worthy of emulation by others
AIA Credits: 3
West Palm Story: Downtown Back from the Brink
Learning Objective 1: 1. Participants will learn how the physical condition of downtown West Palm Beach has changed over the last 25 years; this will be especially useful to those visiting West Palm Beach for the first time or re-visiting after a long absence.
Learning Objective 2: 2. Participants will learn how local political leaders, public-sector planners, and outside consultants kick-started and carried out a major physical transformation over a short period of time.
Learning Objective 3: 3. Participants will learn how city officials commissioned and adopted what today would be called a “form-based code” to implement a mid-1990s downtown master plan.
Learning Objective 4: 4. Participants will hear an evaluation of a newly adopted downtown code and how it compares and contrasts with the 1990s code.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Designing and Developing Walkable Urban Grocery Stores
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn the key design issues to be aware of in designing and developing grocery stores in an urban setting
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn the key financing and development issues associated with urban grocery stores.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn the key grocery operations issues to be aware of in developing urban grocery stores.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn the key entitlement issues and building code issues.
AIA Credits: 1.25
The Economic Benefit of Good Urbanism
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to calculate the property tax impact of urban forms of development versus suburban forms of development
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to show a benefit analysis of how compact, walkable urbanism is far more beneficial economically for a community's tax base
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to show the economic benefit (from a taxable standpoint) of rehabilitating the older parts of our communities that are the dense walkable places and downtowns, but also the cost/benefits to creating more places like this, which inherently are more walkable, reduce the use of fossil fuels (through the energy savings from density found in multi-story structures) as well as preserving natural landscapes by creating more compact forms of development and being efficient on public resources
Learning Objective 4: Participants will receive a core understanding of the property tax assessment system and how it influences community design decisions and the subsidies that are built within that system to support sprawl and throw-away architecture
AIA Credits: 1.25
Charrettes and the Next Generation of Public Involvement
Learning Objective 1: Learn the trade-offs of social media and web based participation compared to face-to-face meetings.
Learning Objective 2: Learn how to use social media to increase the number and diversity of people attending public meetings.
Learning Objective 3: Learn how distance participation tools can be used to support charrettes by allowing people to weigh in on design alternatives remotely.
Learning Objective 4: Learn how to customize a charrette project to fit the project budget.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Global Capitalism & The Tall Tower Reconsidered
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how skyscraper development has effected urbanism
Learning Objective 2: Speakers will compare and contrast differing views of urban design and infill development. Participants can learn from their design experiences and form opinions
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how global capitalism is related to and effected by urban design and architecture trends.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how high-rise and high-density developments effect the urban fabric and the economy
AIA Credits: 1.25
Functional Classification: The Least Interesting Policy That Dominates Most Everything
Learning Objective 1: Learn about the conceptual basis behind highway, street and network planning
Learning Objective 2: The way functional classification impacts all transit planning, determines bicycle solutions, and unknowingly, establishes where we can walk.
Learning Objective 3: The way in which zoning ordinances and comprehensive plans are tied to functional classification.
Learning Objective 4: A brief history of functional classification in planning.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Realizing Streets for Everyone, and Getting Someone Else to Pay for Them: Funding, Designing
and Implementing Complete Streets
Learning Objective 1: Understand the role of Complete Streets/Thoroughfares in achieving balanced, walkable environments and how to
implement Complete Streets from a regulatory standpoint
Learning Objective 2: Present examples from around the country where the principles of Complete Streets have been implemented, ranging
from retrofits (both reconstruction and simple pavement reallocations) to new, integrated designs
Learning Objective 3: Discuss techniques of how local municipalities are securing funding, collaborating with affected residents and business
owners, and ultimately implementing a Complete Street/Thoroughfare
Learning Objective 4: Understand how Federal, state, and local agencies are responding to the upcoming legislative and funding changes and learn how initiatives such as Complete Streets Acts and Form Based Codes give agencies and jurisdictions an
advantage under the Federal funding criteria
AIA Credits: 1.25
Florida Mobility Policies: Regional Rail to Enhance Mobility
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about the history of rail transportation in eastern Florida and how it has impacted the local region and economy
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about the opportunities that integrating freight and passenger rail transportation can bring to a community
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how passenger rail services can successfully be implemented in communities
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how successful regional transportation systems can be designed and built to allow for smooth mobility throughout the entire metropolitan area
AIA Credits: 1.25
Parking: Planning to Store the Cars Properly, Amid the Pedestrians!
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how to design on-street and off-street parking for compact urban places, avoiding the tendency to design on a suburban scale and preserving/enhancing walkability and other health benefits, such as lower emissions.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how to estimate actual parking demand, considering market needs and traditional neighborhood design that encourages walkability and healthy lifestyles.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn about innovative parking management strategies, sensitive to traditional neighborhood design, whether in new towns, revitalized cities or historic places.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how to determine the most cost effective way to design and manage parking supply, as well as the legal tools accessible to them to ensure good urban design.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Beyond Bike Lanes: Building a Culture of Bicycle Safety
Learning Objective 1: The design and behavioral factors that result in cycling-related deaths and injuries
Learning Objective 2: Design countermeasures that can reduce cycling crashes
Learning Objective 3: Social and educational programming that complement and enhance the effectiveness of cycling infrastructure
Learning Objective 4: Strategies for combining infrastructure, programming, and planning and development policies into a coordinated, comprehensive approach to bicycle safety
AIA Credits: 1.25
Clearer Thinking: Urbanism + Transit
Learning Objective 1: Recognize the placemaking potential of various types of transit systems (streetcar, LRT, commuter rail, bus, BRT, etc.) and their impacts on user health.
Learning Objective 2: Will be able to integrate transit operators' needs into new urbanist projects and designs.
Learning Objective 3: Recognize regional and city transit systems considerations and be prepared to integrate them into local placemaking initiatives easing commutes and creating more liveable communities.
Learning Objective 4: Learn about the modal connections between public transit and other transportation options such as bike shares which decrease emissions and increase user health and welfare.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Preserving Affordability: Gentrification without Displacement
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn new approaches to revitalization that do not automatically mean displacement for poorer residents
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how urban design techniques can improve communities
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn best practices from a number of examples around the country
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how unique financing and management practices can offer alternative approaches to traditional public housing developments
AIA Credits: 1.25
Looking Forward: New Urbanism and the New World
Learning Objective 1: Discover the broad array of issues and forces influencing the form and performance of urbanism.
Learning Objective 2: Understand the biggest obstacles to creating good urbanism.
Learning Objective 3: Begin to assemble a toolkit for overcoming the obstacles that prevent practitioners from creating healthy, compact living environments.
Learning Objective 4: Learn how to enact Open Space Technology, a "next-generation" method for facilitating real-time collaboration among diverse groups of people.
AIA Credits: 3
Saturday Night Closing Plenary: Memo for the Next Decade
Learning Objective 1: The impact of the built environment on children's health.
Learning Objective 2: Architecture and urban planning in relation to designing healthy communities.
Learning Objective 3: The downfalls of car-oriented communities on health and solutions to a healthier society.
Learning Objective 4: The overall implications of built environment on the health, sustainability and future success of cities.
AIA Credits: 1
Meta-Physical Planning, All You Need Is Love
Learning Objective 1: Combine themes from past seances: everything is connected, the work of Christopher Alexander, the physical and meta-physical experiences of New Urbanists, stop acting like a Muggle, and all you need is love.
Learning Objective 2: How to make cosmically great places.
Learning Objective 3: The meaning of life.
Learning Objective 4: Hear from others experiences regarding metaphysical planning.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Across the Transect: From Historic Preservation to Composting
Learning Objective 1: At the end of the workshop participants will have the knowledge to recognize new business opportunities created by an integrated relationship between new urbanism and historic preservation
Learning Objective 2: At the end of the session, attendees will be able to understand the basic principles of composting using the New Urbanist Transect as a regulating framework
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to analyze a neighborhood for its local DNA, without high-tech equipment, and how to utilize the Transect Collection photographic resource for code calibration
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze and map cities and regions with "transect automation."
AIA Credits: 1.25
Growing "In" in the 21st Century: Incremental Growth Patterns
Learning Objective 1: The Student will be able to inform clients of new developments using pattern languages and incremental development to provide both harmony and flexibility.
Learning Objective 2: The student will be able to inform members of the public about dynamic new areas of work within New Urbanism and the CNU.
Learning Objective 3: The objective is to learn about planning and implementation ideas for quality new development and redevelopment. The implications are for urban design, urban policy and sustainabilty.
Learning Objective 4: A shared understanding of the integration of urban planning, urban design and architecture in order to regulate for new building within more urban areas, such as downtowns and first-tier streetcar neighborhoods.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Resilience and Adaptation
Learning Objective 1: At the end of the talk participants will have a better understanding of the need of living infrastructure and the advantages of including it in new urbanism developments.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to apply adaptation strategies that use both historic/traditional urbanism and current interventions, and be able to articulate the costs and benefits of each.
Learning Objective 3: Be able to use the lens of resiliency to identify and organize problems into cause and symptom in order to formulate the best approach.
Learning Objective 4: Learn how to analyze options based on their underlying value and cost to their intended settings.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Sprawl Repair and Infill: From Incremental to Wetrofit to Agriculture
Learning Objective 1: After attending this discussion the participant will have a firm understanding of the conditions present that help to create a culture of passion surrounding sustainable urban agriculture, and will be able to identify with their clients needs.
Learning Objective 2: Participant will examine potential economics of infill. (proforma, available loans, construction costs)
Learning Objective 3: Participant will understand ways to continue with sprawl repair in the current economy.
Learning Objective 4: Attendees will learn a method of sprawl repair that does not require large-scale land acquisition or development debt, and that makes existing landowners partners in the development.
AIA Credits: 1.25
From Balanced Roads to Transit Oriented Development
Learning Objective 1: At the end of the session, participants will see real-world examples that help them better understand why transportation corridors get so wide and have resources to implement designs that promote complete streets principles while meeting typical design standards.
Learning Objective 2: At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to explain how a wide variety of cycling infrastructures accommodate different types of riders using a few basic categories, with the goal of diversifying conversations around cycling advocacy in the US.
Learning Objective 3: Learn about different strategies for implementing transit-oriented development through a) mixed-use master development; b) urban transformational station-area developments; and, c) small scale neighborhood infill development; all within the context of a comprehensive plan and innovative land-use regulatory code.
Learning Objective 4: Learn how land use and transportation can be integrated and how partner agencies can overcome current organizational barriers to arrive at solutions.
AIA Credits: 1.25
Tactical Urbanism, Economics and Community
Learning Objective 1: At the end of this session participants will be able to identify a continuum of tactics and understand the context from which the tactical urbanist movement has grown.
Learning Objective 2: At the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to identify the positive and negative aspects of their civic psyche and use it to craft plans, programs and initiatives that instill pride in one's community and enhance a local sustainable economy.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn skills for community engagement and education associated with urban improvements.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn to collaborate with others on the creation of short term action plans associated with long term vision plans for a community.
AIA Credits: 1.25
The Misunderstood Transect: Theory vs. Practice in New Urbanist Codes
Learning Objective 1: The theoretical and historical underpinnings of Transect-based codes
Learning Objective 2: Current best practices for analyzing, planning and coding using the rural-to-urban Transect framework
Learning Objective 3: How the model SmartCode is structured to coordinate the regional scale, the neighborhood scale, and the building scale
Learning Objective 4: See new Transect diagrams and debate new ideas about using transect methodology at different scales for different purposes, including regional planning
AIA Credits: 2.75
CNU 20 Art Room: Photographing the Building, Street, and Town by Sandy Sorlien
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: Rendering in Pen and Ink by Eric Osth
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: SketchUp as a Foundation for Quick Charrette Hand Drawing by Kenneth Garcia & Eduardo Castillo
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: Watercolor: Composition and Technique by David Csont
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: Observational Painting in Oils by James Howard Kunstler
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: Architectural Rendering in Watercolor Wash by John and Jennifer Griffin and Evocative Pastel Travel Sketching by Andrew Georgiadis
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: Digital Painting with the iPad and with Photoshop by Joe Skibba & JJ Zanetta
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 Art Room: Photo-Realistic Before and After Sequences in Photoshop by Steve Price
AIA Credits: 1.25
Heterodoxia Architectonica
Learning Objective 1: Learn Heterodoxia Architectonica, a proposed new theory for architecture.
Learning Objective 2: Use theory to bridge classicism and modernism in architecture.
Learning Objective 3: Learn how this theory and all theories of architecture must move to communicate to real folk.
Learning Objective 4: Hear of the results of the proposed blending of styles.
AIA Credits: 1.25
CNU 20 ART ROOM: RESEARCHING & DOCUMENTING NEW URBANISM
AIA Credits: 1.25
The Art of the New Urbanism
AIA Credits: 4
