Thank you for attending CNU 33!
Thank you for attending CNU 33 New England at Providence. We hope you enjoyed the content, social events, and getting to explore the city - and region - on foot, bus, and bike. We can't wait to keep delivering this important programmatic effort.
Program Booklet
The program booklet captures all content at CNU 33 including Tours, Local Government Day, New Urbanist Outreach Day, and CNU 33 Sessions. Information includes session descriptions, speakers, and CEUs. Access the CNU 33 Program Booklet.
CNU 33 Session Slides and Video Recordings
We are excited to share the collection of CNU33 Session slide decks and video recordings that we have available!
Session Slides and Handouts
Session slides and handouts are available through CNU Engage for registered attendees and speakers (login required), and can be accessed via the Session's detail view. List of available session slides and guidance on how to locate files in CNU Engage available below.
Video Recordings
A number of sessions were recorded at CNU 33. These video recordings can be viewed as a YouTube playlist.
Access Instructions and Session List
Session slides and handouts are available through CNU Engage for registered attendees and speakers (login required), and can be accessed via the Session's detail view. If provided by the speakers, these will be listed at the bottom of the session description under "Files". As more files become available, we will notify all attendees.
New Urbanism Outreach Day: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
- Form-based Lite: A Zoning Approach for Small New England Cities (CNU33026)
- From Renewal to Repair: Toward more Equitable Regions (CNU33055)
Tour Handouts
- The Synergy of Sims Ave (CNU33T33)
- Hearty Cyclists Bike the East Bay (CNU33T34)
- Newport's Old Urbanism (CNU33T01)
- Off-site Modular Home Building: From Factory to Finished Product (CNU33T21)
Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Enjoying life without minimum parking mandates: lessons from cities that removed them (CNU33034)
- Building Regional Resilience Through Local Economies (CNU33010)
- Complete Streets are Plural- Stroads, Streets, and Networks (CNU33064)
- Walking into the Future: The Theory and Practice of Promoting Coherence through Walkability (CNU33059)
- The Principles of New Urbanism and Coherent Metropolitan Regions (CNU33087)
- Metro Connector: How High-Capacity Transit Could Bring Transformational Benefits to the Providence Region (CNU33076)
- The Housing Crisis: Where do we go from here? (CNU33072)
- Model Climate Adaptation Enabling Legislation (CNU33031)
- Revitalizing and Reimagining the Working Waterfront: South Providence (CNU33068)
- The Case for Forever (CNU33086)
- Transit Connectivity across Jurisdictions and State Lines: Rhode Island Transit Master Plan Update (CNU33074)
- Massachusetts's Cultural Districts Initiative: Reexamining Policy, Purpose, and Process for Greater Impact (CNU33003)
Friday, June 13, 2025
- What to do when you don't have "Comps" (CNU33022)
- Missing Middle HOWsing: Implementation & Results (CNU33040)
- By the Community, For the Community (CNU33058) Innovative Urban Centers Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Promoting Office-to-Residential / New Urbanist Tools for Innovation Districts
- Regionalism at the Ballot Box: Learning from Successful Referenda Across the US (CNU33013)
- Upper Missing Middle Housing Types (CNU33048)
- A New Urbanist and necessary perspective on Density (CNU33033)
- The Get Sh!t Done Plan Your City Leadership Needs (CNU33021)
- Designing Affordable Housing Across the Rural to Urban Transect (CNU33030)
- Intentional and Creative Solutions to the Housing Crisis Coming from the Perspective of the Incremental Developer (CNU33008)
- A cottage court by any other name would be just as sweet (CNU33045)
- Placemaking: A Solution to Transportation Safety and Quality of Life (CNU33088)
- Duplexes, Rowhouses, Townhouses, (Single-family attached), oh my! Legalizing attached fee simple homeownership (CNU33004)
Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Sacred Spaces as Social Enterprise: Guiding development for faith-communities, neighborhoods, and cities. (CNU33057)
- Claiborne Reborn: the realization of a dream (CNU33062)
- Playing the Game: 501c4s and PACs for New Urbanist Advocacy (CNU33039)
- Report on A New Database of Research on New Urbanism (CNU33017)
- Innovative Housing Strategies for Rural and Small-Town Transformation (CNU33061)
- Removing Land Use from the Urban Planning and Development Process (CNU33090)
- Planning With Purpose: Building Equitable Policies That Communities Can Deliver (CNU33016)
- Small Lots - Small Houses - Big Rewards (CNU33037)
Available Recorded Sessions:
Main Stage Sessions
- Coordinating Urban Resilience: Strategies that Help Regions Respond to Climate Impacts (CNU33077)
- Polycrisis: Meta Solutions in the Design of Communities and Economies (CNU33078)
- Frameworks for Building Community: Combating Isolation and Exclusion Through Reformed Regulations (CNU33079)
- Closing CNU33 Panel - The New Urbanist Region: Lessons from New England, Impact in Northwest Arkansas (CNU33095)
Congress Sessions
- In Conversation: Reconsidering Recovery Response (CNU33069)
- The Principles of New Urbanism and Coherent Metropolitan Regions (CNU33087)
- Revitalizing and Rebuilding the Waterfront: Downtown Providence (CNU33067)
- Revitalizing and Reimagining the Working Waterfront: South Providence (CNU33068)
- A New Urbanist and necessary perspective on Density (CNU33033)
- Shaping the Future: Miami 21 and the Evolution of Form-Based Codes (CNU33046)
- Placemaking: A Solution to Transportation Safety and Quality of Life (CNU33088)
- Hack the Code: Finding Common Ground in Zoning Reform Strategies (CNU33020)
- Planning With Purpose: Building Equitable Policies That Communities Can Deliver (CNU33016)