• At CNU 34, we’re standing up an aspirational transit system for Northwest Arkansas

    CNU 34 is the first Congress with two cities as venues, and we have created a bus transit system between the locations. Find out how it works.
    At CNU 34 in Northwest Arkansas, you’ll see a rapidly growing, polycentric region that is reprogramming its growth toward Charter- and transect-based urbanism. The region’s transit system will also need to reprogram, to support the denser, walkable, mixed-use growth that the region and the economy...Read more

  • New Urbanism and Its Influences in Northwest Arkansas

    We created a Google map —and a drawn illustration above—of places in Northwest Arkansas (NWA) that have either shaped or been shaped by our movement that prioritizes walkability, human-scale design, and compact, mixed-use development. The map was created in honor of CNU 34 , being held in Northwest...Read more

  • Organizing regional growth around a bike-ped trail

    The Razorback Greenway Corridor Plan turns a multi-city trail into an armature for regional growth. Field Operations and Blockwright won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in the Region: Metropolis, City, and Town category.
    The Razorback Greenway Corridor Plan transforms a 40-mile multi-city trail into the organizing regional framework for development in fast-growing Northwest Arkansas. The Greenway, built over the last 10 years, links seven cities and is one of the most important regional bike-ped trails in the US...Read more

  • Growth Without Sameness: Why CNU 34 in Northwest Arkansas matters now

    Northwest Arkansas is hosting CNU 34 this year, and it is not an accidental choice. This is one of the fastest growing regions in the country, and one of the few still deciding what that growth should look like.
    For planners, designers, and local officials asking whether the trip is worth it, the answer is not in the sessions alone. It is in the conditions on the ground. Growth, money, civic investment, and a political culture that is unusually open to New Urbanist ideas, whether or not it uses that...Read more