Abstract
The Congress for the New Urbanism was formed in 1993 by leading urban design practitioners and educators. The group were united by a commitment to reform urbanism in the USA by countering the current car dominated forms of development with a model based on mixed-use towns accessible by pedestrians and mass transit as well as the car. This article describes the origins of the CNU and its references to the Athens Charter produced by Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in 1933. It goes on to explain how the principles of new urbanism have been developed through intense debate in successive Congresses and the production at the Fourth Congress in May 1996 of their own Charter. The Charter is reproduced here and represents the CNU's first attempt to lay out a coherent set of principles for review and debate.
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