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CNU envisions a world where cities, towns, and neighborhoods are intentionally designed and managed to foster community, preserve the natural environment, and improve the lives of all people. Learn more: cnu.org CNU 33 registration: https://bit.ly/41v76Br
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Be a volunteer at CNU 33! Volunteers play a critical role in the success of the Congress. Volunteers receive steeply discounted registration to attend the Congress outside of their volunteer duties. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis: 1r0afn8bk1j.typeform.com/to/ENdpQdzG

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Wheatland Plaza in Duncanville is a model for adding value to an underutilized site along a suburban arterial through an efficient mixed-use design.

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Basketball fans across America have filled out their brackets using all kinds of analysis, but probably nobody else is using Walk Score to determine NCAA predictions. Here’s how the teams would fare.

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We need street network reform, not just housing, to create abundant, thriving, healthy communities.

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This week, CNU is in New Bedford, MA with ARUP and Street Plans for a #CNU33 Legacy Project! The Love the Ave project will develop a vision for the next phase of the Acushnet Avenue neighborhood. Learn more:

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New towns have always been part of New Urbanism, and the movement should embrace that aspect as a necessary complement to infill, retrofit, and highway transformation.

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As we gather in a part of the country that has continuously adapted over centuries, CNU 33.New England at Providence will face that interrelated community-building challenge with a Focus on the hope of Coherent Metropolitan Regions. Join us in Providence on June 11-14! #CNU33

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The 200-acre downtown for the largest new urban community culminates a plan that grew out of a regional planning effort to reimagine the Wasatch Front metropolis.

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If you want to keep your marbles as you age—it pays to live in a place where you can walk, ride a bike, and move naturally.

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Registration is open for #CNU33 taking place June 11-14 in Providence, RI. Add a CNU 33 tour to your registration for an opportunity to learn on the go and experience all that Providence and New England have to offer on foot, bike, train, or bus. www.cnu.org/cnu33/tours

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Walkable neighborhoods and buildings that frame the public realm should be part of any fire rebuilding effort in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, experts report to CNU.

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A new study of multifamily buildings shows that those with a single stairwell are just as safe as those with two sets of stairs. This could be a key to more infill, missing middle housing.

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Ramming freeways through city neighborhoods did astronomical damage to cities in the 20th Century. Freeways Without Futures—a decades-long campaign by CNU—has been at the vanguard of removing unnecessary freeways from cities. 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Who knew the difference a staircase makes? US requirements that multifamily buildings have more than one staircase damages cities. Amidst calls for reform, CNU Mid-Atlantic is offering a prize for the best single-stair building design for Baltimore.

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March 4 at 12pm ET, join us for our next #OntheParkBench webinar: “Wildfire Recovery and Planning.” Panelists Neal Payton, Barry Long, Kate Blystone and Martin Dreiling will discuss recovery from the LA fire disasters and urban planning related to wildfires. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Registration is open for #CNU33! The 33rd annual Congress on June 11-14 will explore national and international planning issues like housing and climate change through the lens of New England’s cities and towns. Register: www.cnu.org/cnu33/regist... Learn more:

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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: The polycentric region is the superstructure of good urbanism. The polycentric region connects farm to table, nature to urban core, home to workplace, & helps people to navigate from town to city, and from neighborhood to neighborhood. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Integrating resilience into urban design encourages a shift in thinking: Resilient urban design should not only facilitate mitigation and adaptation but also ensure that the solutions for both have to be likable to all.

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HUD leadership under then-secretary Henry Cisneros took the principles of new urban neighborhoods and low-income housing design and adopted them for the transformative HOPE VI program, which changed the face of public housing. 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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The Adaptation Village offers a twist on the street grid, consisting mostly of slow-speed, shared-use mews.

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TOMORROW 2/26 at 12pm ET, join us for our next #OntheParkBench webinar: “Empty to Energized: Creative Storefront Revival.” Join panelists to discuss a collaborative approach to activating underutilized storefront spaces for maximum community impact. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for CNU 33 New England at Providence! Join your fellow New Urbanists in Providence, Rhode Island from June 11-14 for North America's premier placemaking event – the Congress. Register today to take advantage of the Early Bird discount. www.cnu.org/cnu33/regist...

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When looking at façades, six questions asked together can point you toward new buildings that increase downtown vibrancy.

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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: Sustainability has been woven into the fabric of New Urbanism since the beginning. The New Urbanism defined environmental protection in terms of an "interrelated community-building challenge." www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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The redevelopment of sites owned by faith-based organizations is among the decade's biggest urban redevelopment challenges.

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The multi-disciplinary design charrette—often used for infill and transit-oriented neighborhoods, complete streets, form-based codes, and city plans—plays a key role in the movement toward complete communities. 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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A political diatribe accuses new urbanists of limiting liberty and imposing an exclusive vision on America. With support among liberals and conservatives, New Urbanism uses common sense to increase freedom for all and make communities healthier.

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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: Interconnected networks of streets should be designed to encourage walking, reduce the number and length of automobile trips, and conserve energy. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Transit-oriented development (TOD) was conceived in an effort to link transportation and land use and was picked up by like-minded urban designers. TOD ranges from infill in the city to redevelopment of parking lots and grayfield sites in suburban areas. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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In addition to heavy smoking and drinking, lack of social connections and physical activity are primary factors in dying sooner. The latter two deficits can be addressed by community planning focusing on quality of life and walkability.

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The rural-to-urban Transect is a system that places all of the elements of the built environment in useful order, from most rural to most urban. The Transect has been especially useful as a framework to code complete communities. 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Like most historic US cities, Providence declined in the 20th Century but has since become a model for urban revitalization through investment and good planning. CNU will be in Providence for #CNU33 on June 11-14, 2025.

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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: The Charter lays out 27 principles for design of complete communities, from the scale of an individual building, block, or street to an entire city or region. www.cnu.org/publicsquare... Meet our 2024 Charter Amendments: www.cnu.org/who-we-are/c...

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The planning academic changed how we view parking across the American landscape, launching reforms that have helped municipalities.

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We are saddened to hear about the passing of Professor Shoup. A growing number of cities and states are reforming their parking regulations, and Donald Shoup, the 2023 winner of the Seaside Prize, deserves considerable credit. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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New urbanists have long advanced the idea that the public realm ties cities together and is a potential source of joy and inspiration to all citizens. “Great public space is a kind of magical good. It never ceases to yield happiness. It is almost happiness itself.” www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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But most people who work in a 15-minute city can’t afford to live there. We have to build more 15-minute cities to meet demand and make sure at least some housing in them is affordable.

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In walkable areas, streets are public spaces that serve multiple social and economic functions while contributing to the beauty and character of a community. As more communities seek better balance between cars and people, context-based street design is making inroads. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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New urbanist techniques lay lighter on the land with an approach called Light Imprint, lean, or simply green infrastructure. This light approach to engineering, combined with good urban design, makes for appealing spaces while providing effective rainwater management. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Lean Urbanism is a multidisciplinary movement to lower the barriers to community-building, to make it easier to start businesses, and to provide more attainable housing & development. Great neighborhoods need to be built by all hands—including those with limited capital. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Charter award-winning plan is the basis for a much-needed makeover of Harrison Avenue, Panama City, Florida.

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The Foothill Catalog Foundation will remove barriers for wildfire victims to remain and rebuild in their LA neighborhoods.

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New urbanists created urban design codes called form-based codes to physically define streets and public spaces as places of shared use, and to build complete neighborhoods that are compact, pedestrian-friendly, and mixed-use. 25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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The new urban focus on whole cities and towns brings a fresh approach to the art and craft of architecture. Urbanists design buildings that put placemaking first and often work with the "missing middle" of building types that most contribute to urban vitality. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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The 33rd annual Congress for the New Urbanism will explore national and international planning issues like housing and climate change through the lens of New England’s cities and towns. #CNU33

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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: Traditional neighborhoods developments (TNDs), inspired by historic neighborhoods, jump-started the New Urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s as alternatives to conventional master-planned communities. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Suburbs are constantly changing and have vast potential to meet the growing demand for walkable places, a market that cannot be satisfied by traditional cities alone. As millennials age, many will look to find walkable neighborhoods in the suburbs. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Williamson and Dunham-Jones explain what's hot in reforming suburbs on CNU’s On the Park Bench.

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Urbanists emphasize front-entry features like stoops and porches, which appear prominently in form-based codes—whereas they are less important or rarely mentioned in conventional zoning.

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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: Building and revitalizing urban centers is one of the great tasks of the New Urbanism, including figuring out how traditional commercial centers function and incorporating mainstream retail into walkable places. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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