Mallory Baches — President of the Congress for the New Urbanism (or, CNU), and urban designer — is in good traffic to hash out the details of the New Urbanism movement, and the overall progression of urban design, urban planning, and urban development in the U.S.


We discuss:
00:00 On Mallory, and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).
04:10 How have urbanism and urban development evolved in the U.S.?
04:43 What is a “congress” for urbanism?
06:06 A background on new urbanism.
08:36 The history and criticism of the New Urbanist movement, and of urban planning movements as a whole.
15:53 On transit-oriented development, and density, in the U.S.
21:06 Southern urbanism: walkable cities in the Sun Belt and American south.
29:12 Selecting cities for an urban planning and design conference.
34:15 A commute into Chicago.


A couple of quotes:
“Sprawl is continuing. And so 30 years later, [CNU’s] mission to reverse that trend is still as important as ever.”
“We call ourselves a Congress and we talk about intentionally being based on the idea of debate, exploration, and critique where necessary. That sort of approach to understanding cities is fundamentally evolutionary in nature.
“The idea of connecting transit with new development — transit-oriented development, transit-accessible development — there are a lot of acronyms, a lot of ways to describe the idea of designing your mass transportation systems and your higher intensity development to happen in conjunction with each other.”


For context:
On New Urbanism.
On CNU (the organization).
On CNU 32 in Cincinnati, Ohio (the annual conference).


Connecting with Mallory:
On LinkedIn.
On Twitter.

Connecting with me, Brad:
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