Paul Whalen to Speak at CNU 20: The New World

May 12, 2012
Time: 11:00 - 12:15p.m.
West Palm Beach, Florida

At the twentieth annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), RAMSA Partner Paul Whalen will present "The Paradox of Emerging Cities." The presentation will discuss of Heart of Lake, a two-million-square-foot high-density garden suburb on Huxindao Island in Xiamen, a major coastal city in southern China. This planned pedestrian community adapts traditional Chinese and Mediterranean architecture to local culture, climate, and technology; it also incorporates sustainable design practices.

CNU 20 will focus on how New Urbanist practices, principles, and applications can address the extraordinary economic upheaval of recent years that has brought an end to the readily available capital and supercharged growth that fueled a “bigger is better” approach, and advance high quality urbanism through a more incremental, attainable, “small is beautiful” approach. The CNU engages in its mission of excellence by generating new ideas about development, implementation, education, coding, sustainability, and problem-solving using New Urbanist principles.