We all know the challenges facing our current development systems: fragmented communities, housing scarcity, and car-dependent growth. The problems are complex, but the solutions can be simple. This month, CITYBUILDER is diving into one set of solutions, The Charter of the New Urbanism. We’ll discuss this foundational text over lunch in Raleigh on Wednesday, September 24th (RSVP here for details).
History of The Charter
In the mid-1990s, a group of architects, planners, and developers formed the Congress for the New Urbanism to challenge the negative impacts of urban sprawl.
Adopted in 1996, their Charter articulates remedies to the low-density, car-dependent development that became widespread after World War II. To combat these postwar deficiencies, the Charter preaches principles for creating walkable, mixed-use, human-scaled communities — principles tha…
