The Congress for the New Urbanism’s annual meeting can be intimidating for a first timer. I remember walking around clueless during my first Congress, not knowing exactly what to do or where to go. Then all of a sudden I'd bump into someone like James Howard Kunstler, whose books I had loved, and I would be speechless and he'd be like, "Hey, do you know what time it is?" This is CNU in a nutshell.