Urban Design Workshop: 301 – Space is still available!
For professional urban designers, landscape architects, civil engineers, architects, and planners.

Urban Design Workshop: 301 offered by the Congress for the New Urbanism, New England Chapter and our Partners will provide registrants with specific tools and techniques for designing infill and neighborhood plans that reflect the best traditions of New England town building. Instruction will focus on smart growth principles and the design of walkable, compact neighborhoods as a strategy for achieving sustainability. Instructors will lead participants through a hands-on exercise, using a project site that presents an urban design challenge common to towns throughout New England. Our experienced urban designers will provide one-on-one instruction and teach methods for artfully and economically solving real-life urban design challenges. Instruction will include:

• Optimal street sections for walkable streets
• Sustainable design solutions
• Flexible retail design techniques
• Phasable plans that can change with market needs
• Parking solutions that facilitate walkability
• Safe and functional open spaces
• Drawing techniques that result in easily understood master plans

Instructors are New England-based designers with over 20 years of experience creating master plans, infill plans, and neighborhood plans across the county and internationally. They include Bill Dennis, principal of B. Dennis Town & Building Design; Rick Chellman, principal of TND Engineering; Russ Preston, urban designer for Cornish Associates; Don Powers, principal of Donald Powers Architects; and Robert Orr, principal of Robert Orr & Associates.

Events in Massachusetts and New Hampshire are being planned for 2009.

Providence, RI
Hosts: CNU New England and Grow Smart RI
Date: December 12, 2008 (Friday)
12:30 - 4:30 pm
Location: Department of Planning & Urban Development, 4th Floor
400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI
Partner: Land-Use Training Collaborative
* We are pursuing AICP CM credits for this location.

West Haven, CT
Hosts: CNU New England and 1000 Friends of Connecticut
Date: December 15, 2008 (Monday)
12:30 - 4:30 pm
Location: Savin Rock Conference Center
6 Rock Street, West Haven, CT
* We are pursuing AICP CM credits for this location.

Burlington, VT
Date: December 16, 2008 (Tuesday)
12:30 - 4:30 pm
Location: Champlain College
Hauke Conference Room
375 Maple Street, Burlington, VT
Partner: Smart Growth Vermont

Westbrook, ME
Hosts: CNU New England and Maine Association of Planners
Date: December 18, 2008 (Thursday)
12:30 - 4:30 pm
Location: TechMaine
506 Main Street, Westbrook, ME
Partner: GrowSmart Maine
* We are pursuing AICP CM credits for this location.

Cost:

Members of CNU NE and Partnering Orgs	$65
Non-Members	$85
Students (with ID)	$25

To register please send an e-mail to newengland@cnu.org. Please enter workshop location in the subject line.