The beginnings of thefirst student chapter of New Urbanism, and the future of student chapters inthe CNU.
"Remarkable things happen when Jim Kunstler comes to town to preach the virtues of traditional communities and trash the system that doesnt value them. Kunstler calls these "gigs," and at one particular gig held at the University of Georgia (UGA) in 1999, college student Jacob Lindsey and manufacturing engineer Walter Kawa were among the standing-room-only crowd. Soon after, the two met in an Athens, Ga., coffee shop and drafted a charter onto napkins for a new organization called SNU (Students for the New Urbanism). The organization was formed because Lindsey felt there was a complete lack of teaching and thought about new urbanism in the academy."
Thanks to Laurence Aurbach
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