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The SmartCode & Manual and SmartCode v8.0 shareware are available free of charge in both Acrobat and InDesign file formats. The SmartCode & Manual features SmartCode v8.0 text, in its entirety, on the right side of each spread, matched with incisive annotation on each facing page. The code is preceded by a commentary on form-based codes, sprawl and its alternatives, the Transect, and the SmartCode elements, structure, implementation responsibility, calibration and legal issues. The SmartCode & Manual appendices include sample regulating plans, sample enabling legislation, an ordinance, case studies and resources. A must-have for efficient local calibration.

 

 

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Equal parts theory and mechanics, the SmartCode Workshop delivers all the tools you need for successful local implementation of the SmartCode, an increasingly influential form-based solution to community land planning. Examine it line by line, and discuss its current implementation and administration. Empower your efforts through the collective wisdom of Andrés Duany and leading practitioner presenters. Then, on Saturday, put your new- found expertise to use in our Advanced Sessions: SmartCode Calibration; SmartCode Implementation; Generating Community Support; and The History of Codes.

 

Register by March 6th and enjoy a $100 early registration discount. Space fills up quickly, so act now.

 

 

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Hazel Borys

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Andrés Duany and John Norquist talk Texas urbanism.

 

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John Norquist:
Setting the Stage for
CNU XVI: Austin 2008
- What is the CNU and
what it has accomplished.
- What it means to have the Congress in Austin in 2008.
- What Texas can expect to get out of CNU XVI.

 

 

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Andrés Duany:
The Tenets of New Urbanism
The American standard of living is without par, and nowhere is this achievement more vividly illustrated than within the unmatched comfort of our own homes. But is it enough? Such private splendor, it seems, has come at the expense of the world outside our windows. The spaces we share deserve better. Please join us for this rare public evening as Andres shares his unique and thoughtprovoking perspective on what’s brought us to this point and, more importantly, what we — from practitioner to private citizen — can do about it.

 

 

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John Norquist is President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism. His work promoting New Urbanism as an alternative to sprawl and antidote to sprawl's social and environmental problems draws on his experience as big-city mayor and prominent participant in national discussions on urban design and school reform. John was the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988-2004. Under his leadership, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown housing, and became a leading center of education and welfare reform. He has overseen a revision of the city's zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city's 3.1- mile Riverwalk. He has drawn widespread recognition for championing the removal of a .8 mile stretch of elevated freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million in infill development in the heart of Milwaukee. A leader in national discussions of urban design and educational issues, Norquist is the author of The Wealth of Cities, and has taught courses in urban policy and urban planning at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and at Marquette University.


Andrés Duany is Principal of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, and planner, architect, author, observer and critic. He & his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, founded their practice in 1980, at the time of their design of Seaside, which began an ongoing debate on the alternatives to suburban sprawl. Since then, their company has completed over three hundred downtown and new town plans both in this country and abroad. They, as co-authors of the SmartCode, have a particular love for writing codes and for polemical writing in general. Their firm employs about 40 persons and has offices in Miami, Charlotte and Washington. They were founding members of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and have received several honorary degrees and awards for their work. Their book, Suburban Nation, describes the problems and proposes practical models for the city of the 21st century. Andrés was recently named by Builder Magazine as one of the five most influential people in home building today.

 

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The Frank Erwin Center
Lone Star Room
1701 Red River | Austin, TX | 78701

No registration required; lecture is free.
Limited seating; please arrive as early as possible.
Thursday, March 29
5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Presented in conjunction with the
SmartCode Workshop Austin, March 29-31, 2007.

 

 

Best regards,


Hazel Borys

PlaceMakers

toll free: (866) A-NU-Town