As a prelude to CNU XVI, Envision Central Texas and the Congress for the New Urbanism are hosting "From Boom to BEST? The Future of Central Texas", a lunch featuring a discussion by Andrés Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Hank Dittmar of The Prince Charles Foundation for the Built Environment and our own beloved mayor. Topics include fostering walkable development, transit, sustainability in times of booming growth and the impact of mixed-use development......

In case you haven't gotten enough New Urbanism lately, Congress for the New Urbanism will be holding next year's CNU XVI right here in Austin. If you can't wait that long to hear about New Urbanism's applicability to Central Texas, Envision Central Texas is hosting the SmartCode Workshop from March 29- 31, 2007. Is $565 a little too much scratch to hear about urban planning? Don't want to go all out on the whole......

Austinist has heard some fuss lately about "infill" in South Austin, so we decided to do a little research and find out what the hell it means why everyone seems so upset about it. We found some interesting little factoids about our hometown. Austin is growing up: Recent years have brought unprecedented growth to Central Texas communities. In fact, our collective population in Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson Counties now surpasses 1.4 million. And......