CNU's Holds Tenth Conference

"This Congress serves as a milestone for an organization conceived by a handful of people with a passion for town planning and an aversion to sprawl. Today the CNU is in the forefront of a national movement. However, a little over 10 years ago, the idea of holding an annual event for a movement that had yet to be named was just beginning to germinate in the minds of a few.The need to coordinate forces within the field of what has become the new urbanism was felt by its leaders early on. According to Andrés Duany, a pioneer of traditional town planning in the United States, it was Luxembourg-born urbanist Léon Krier who came up with the idea of forming an organization based on Congresses. This permanent Congress, he thought, should be fashioned after the once very successful Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) - an organization both architects were familiar with."

Thanks to Diane Dorney