On The Park Bench:
A Public Square Conversation

  • A unique building becomes a hub for historic neighborhoods
    <strong>Ponce City Market</strong> <em>Atlanta, GA</em>

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  • A mixed-use center for town and gown
    <strong>Storrs Center</strong> <em>Mansfield, CT</em>

    Build Great Places / #thisiscnu

  • From parking lot to urban tour-de-force
    <strong>UCLA Weyburn</strong>&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles, California</em>

    Build Great Places / #thisiscnu

  • Crosstown_Concourse_2018_Charter_LooneyRicksKiss
    Crosstown_Concourse_2018_Charter_LooneyRicksKiss
    From former warehouse to "vertical village"
    <strong>Crosstown Concourse</strong>&nbsp; <em>Memphis, Tennessee</em>

    Build Great Places / #thisiscnu

  • Expanding options for a car-oriented suburban area
    <strong>Village of Providence</strong> <em>Huntsville, AL</em>

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  • Jazz Market New Orleans Audience Seating
    Jazz Market New Orleans Audience Seating
    Trumpeting a cultural revival
    <strong>Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market</strong>&nbsp; <em>New Orleans, Louisiana</em>

    Build Great Places / #thisiscnu

  • Historic arcade houses young professionals
    <strong>Microlofts at The Arcade Providence</strong>&nbsp;<em>Providence, Rhode Island</em>

    Build Great Places / #thisiscnu

  • Mercado District | Tucson, Arizona
    A timeless place from the ground up. #thisiscnu

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  • Southside
    Ten acres that transformed a city #thisiscnu

    Build Great Places / #thisiscnu

Upcoming webinars

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 12 noon ET
Connecting Commercial Corridors
Commercial corridors play a pivotal role in community revitalization and economic sustainability. Using a real-world case study from efforts currently underway in Third Ward, Houston, join Jason Hyman, Nikki Knight, and Scott Snodgrass who decided to take gentrification head on. They will explore and highlight the potential of commercial spaces to function as buffers to the demographics shifts and displacement happening in communities across the country. Rob Steuteville will moderate.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 12 noon ET
Affordable Housing Strategies and Implementation
Join affordable housing experts Bill Neher, who manages the Housing Accelerator Fund in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Murphy Antoine or Torti Gallas + Partners in Washington, DC, for a discussion of affordable housing. Lauren Mayer will moderate.
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On The Park Bench is CNU's webinar series presenting interactive conversations with thought leaders in New Urbanism and allied industries, providing an opportunity for the audience to engage in real time. Powered by the Congress for the New Urbanism, Public Square and On the Park Bench are built to add depth and rigor to the practice of urbanism and improve our capacity for creating inclusive, resilient places—places that people love.

Author’s Forum on Urbanism is a monthly series featuring authors in an hour-long, interactive discussion of recent publications on urbanism. The series, part of CNU’s On the Park Bench webinar program, takes a deep dive into each author’s insights through the lens of New Urbanism. The focus will be on one or two ideas that are embodied in the book, which advance the understanding of precedents and design strategies to repair and make sustainable urbanism. Attendees will have an opportunity to engage the authors during the session.

All live On the Park Bench webinars qualify for one CEU credit from AICP (click here for more on tracking and reporting). Additionally, CNU-A members can earn one CEU credit for all live and recorded On the Park Bench webinars (click here for more information on tracking and reporting).

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PAST WEBINARS
 

April 16, 2024
AUTHOR'S FORUM: TAKING A PEN FOR A WALK
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April 2, 2024
AUTHOR'S FORUM: CITY LIMITS
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March 19, 2024
AUTHOR'S FORUM: THE EQUITY PLANNER
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March 12, 2024
GUERILLA URBANISM
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February 6, 2024
AUTHOR'S FORUM: HUMAN TRANSIT
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January 31, 2024
CHALLENGES IN PRE-APPROVED BUILDING PLANS
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December 19, 2023
PLANNING FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
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November 28, 2023
AUTHOR'S FORUM: CLIMATE RESILIENCE FOR AN AGING NATION
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November 14, 2023
A STORY CAN CHANGE A CITY
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October 17, 2023
AUTHOR'S FORUM: FRAGILE NEIGHBORHOODS
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October 10, 2023
A BLACK URBANIST JOURNEY TO AN ACCESSIBLE QUEER FEMINIST FUTURE
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October 4, 2023
REPAIRING PAST HARM: DO DESIGNERS AND PLANNERS HAVE A ROLE?
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September 26, 2023
30 YEARS ON, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE NEW URBANISM
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September 19, 2023
CREATIVE PLACEMAKING THROUGH ART AND MUSIC
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August 29, 2023
EQUITY WITHIN URBANISM: WHY IT EVEN MATTERS
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August 1, 2023
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MIXED-USE HEALTH DISTRICTS
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July 25, 2023
CLIMATE & EQUITY CHALLENGE PROJECTS
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July 11, 2023
FLORIDA'S EXPERIENCE WITH CONTEXT-BASED STREET CLASSIFICATION
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June 20, 2023
AUTHOR'S FORUM: PAVED PARADISE
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April 11, 2023
CAR-FREE URBANISM
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