CNU Names Winners of 2008 Charter Awards

摘要

Since 2001, the congress for the new urbanism (cnu) has honored the best of new urbanist projects with its annual Charter Awards. For the program's 2008 iteration, 14 professional and one academic project have been recognized, four of which are in countries other than the United States: the Bahamas, India, Saudi Arabia, and Scotland. The awards will be presented on April 5 during the CNU's 16th congress, which is being held this year in Austin, Texas. The members of this year's awards jury: Andres Duany (chair), principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.; Ben Bolgar, director of design theory and networks, the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment; Victor Dover, principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners; Geoffrey Dyer, director, Placemakers, and principal and urban designer, T-Six Urbanists; Katharine Kelley, president, Green Street Properties; Peter Park, manager of community planning and development, city and county of Denver.