Seaside Florida Tours
Seaside Florida, for better or for worse, has become an icon for new urbanist villages. Designed by Andres Duany and developed by Robert Davis in the 1980’s, Seaside was created as a holiday town in the Florida panhandle. Seaside has revived local vernacular building traditions for the construction of houses and traditional small town urban forms for laying out streets and squares. Read more...

Our Civic Spaces
Kunstler wrote The Geography of Nowhere "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and the ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." This course takes a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great or miserable. It is both hilarious and informative. Read more...

The High Intensity Block
Increasingly, urbanists are complementing the qualities of traditional towns and cities with high performance strategies for sustainability. At the scale of the block these include solar orientation and storm water filtration. This course explores the trade-offs and connections between ideal urban form and environmental performance, showcasing Davis California, Cilvano in Tucson Arizona, and Bed Zed, a zero-energy, block-scale project from England that is the amazing cutting edge of sustainable... Read more...

The Sustainable Block
Increasingly, urbanists are complementing the qualities of traditional towns and cities with high performance strategies for sustainability. At the scale of the block these include solar orientation and storm water filtration. This course explores the trade-offs and connections between ideal urban form and environmental performance, showcasing Davis California, Cilvano in Tucson Arizona, and Bed Zed, a zero-energy, block-scale project from England that is the amazing cutting edge of sustainable... Read more...

The Sustainable City
The 21st century has produced a burst of visionary principles and standards designed to reform patterns of human settlement- Ahwahnee, Hanover, Aalborg Charter, CNU Charter, Smart Growth, LED, and the Transect. As a result, today the goals of sustainability and urbanism are coming together. This panel convenes leaders in government, academia, and new urban practice working to forge a meaningful union of these sometimes reinforcing, sometimes contradicting sets of principles. Read more...

Multi-Generational Demand for Urbanism
The boomers are retiring and tiring of their “McMansions” (giant homes in the burbs), while Generation Y is emerging and struggling to afford starter homes. Both are looking to vibrant urban places to provide their perfect lifestyle answers. Join this panel of design, development, and real estate experts and examine what the demographic trends, design demands, and shift in wealth mean to cities and suburbs. Read more...

Green Solutions Along the Transect
Learn how the Transect can be used as an organizing tool to select appropriated and alternative solutions to the environmental needs. Hear about projects from across the Transect and learn how your “plug-ins” contribute to this growing new urbanist knowledge base. Read more...

New Urbanism Basics: Changing the Model
An in-depth primer on the history, principles, and concepts of New Urbanism. This course provides an illustrated introduction to New Urbanism and a foundation in key concepts such as the Transect, transportation planning, and theory vs. practice. Read more...

Coding Modernism
The Charter of the New Urbanism explicitly says that New Urbanism is not specific to a particular architectural style. These leading designers teach how the principles can be expressed in codes that permit both traditional architecture and the many varieties of modernism. Read more...