CNU can customize a two-day workshop to concentrate local efforts on creating a vision for a variety of purposes, from addressing zoning and coding to finding pathways to affordable housing, from promoting public health through the built environment to co-locating new development near schools or transit, from green infrastructure to walkable streets, and more. With the nation’s foremost experts, we create programming that meets a city or town where it is, helps convene municipal departments, and can also invite the public in to engage.
Our workshop process starts with a full assessment, based on a comprehensive conversation and diagnosis of where your community needs design and planning support. We then explore your options for moving forward, creating a workshop to investigate those questions and pass along best practices.
A typical workshop is a two-day process, with the CNU team coming in to facilitate conversations that might not otherwise happen. Our workshops guide participants through the three steps of placemaking: crafting a meaningful vision, finding the rules and tools to realize it, and implementation.
Topics considered at workshops include:
- Tax Policy/Municipal Fiscal Analysis
- Municipal Fiscal Best Practices
- Form-Based Codes
- The Range of Transit Options
- Traffic Roundabouts: The Straight Story
- Urban Design to Implementation Policy: Affordable and Attainable Housing
- Developer Boot Camps for the Small and Incremental Developer
- Charrette Training
- Parking Management
- Health Districts
- Sprawl Retrofit
- Enabling a Legal Framework: Comparing and Choosing Code Tools
- Missing Middle Housing
- Accessory Dwelling Ordinances
- Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management
- Moving from Highways to Bvlds
- CNU and ITE Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
- Finding Federal Resources
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Creating Great Places: Core Curriculum
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