Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), an organization that promotes walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl, is holding its 2009 transportation summit at the Nines Hotel in Portland, Ore., from Nov. 4-6. According to the summit’s website, “The Project for Transportation Reform promotes the implementation of connected, multi-modal street networks as the answer to many of our transportation, safety, land use and urban design problems.”
The 2009 summit builds on the work of last year’s summit (check out the summit’s draft agenda). CNU members are drafting specific principles to augment and amplify the Charter of the New Urbanism which will be presented at the summit (Transportation Networks Initiative has more background).
Speakers include Congressman Earl Blumenauer; Norman Garrick, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Connecticut and director of UCONN’s Center for Transportation and Urban Planning; Jacquelyne Grimshaw, vice president of the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago; John Norquist, president and CEO of CNU; Robert Liberty, Metro Council member; and Scott Polikov, town planner and president of Gateway Planning Group. The summit also includes five Portland-area tours.
Register for the summit here (early registration ends today).
