On The Park Bench:
A Public Square Conversation

  • 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>

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

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

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

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

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  • Southside
    Ten acres that transformed a city #thisiscnu

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

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

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Upcoming webinars

Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 12 noon ET
Repairing Past Harm: Do Designers and Planners have a Role?
CNU board member and former NYC Parks Commissioner Mitch Silver uses Brooklyn Village in Charlotte as a case study showing the harm inflicted on black communities by the planning profession, and makes the case for planners to right this wrong. CNU President Mallory Baches will moderate. 
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12 noon ET
A Black Urbanist Journey to an Accessible Queer Feminist Future
Kristen Jeffers (she/they)  will be presenting the framework for her upcoming book and masterclass, A Black Urbanist Journey to an Accessible Queer Feminist Future. In this hour webinar, she will be going through the three reasons she continues to choose dense urban places, three reasons that folks who are also Black queer feminist urbanists don't, and how everyone listening can create solutions so that more people like Kristen will choose dense urban places. CNU's Desiree Powell will moderate. 
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 12 noon ET
Author's Forum: Fragile Neighborhoods
On the Park Bench interviews Seth Kaplan, author of Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time. Rob Steuteville is the moderator. 
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 12 noon ET
Author's Forum: Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation
Danielle Arigoni will discuss her new book on how communities with aging populations can prepare for climate change. CNU's 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
 

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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April 4, 2023
WHAT'S NEW AT CNU 31
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March 21, 2023
PARKING REFORM TRENDS
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March 7, 2023
URBANISM AND FAITH COMMUNITIES
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February 21, 2023
HEALING SMALL CITIES
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December 6, 2022
ZONING THAT SUPPORTS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
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November 15, 2022
JUMP-STARTING SMALL-SCALE URBANISM
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November 8, 2022
AUTHOR'S FORUM: URBANISM FOR A DIFFICULT FUTURE
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September 20, 2022
CODING FOR BETTER PLACES
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September 6, 2022
THE MAGIC OF INNER-BLOCK DEVELOPMENT
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August 2, 2022
AUTHOR'S FORUM: ARBITRARY LINES
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July 12, 2022
FREEWAY FIGHTERS: PUSHING BACK AGAINST FREEWAY EXPANSIONS
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July 5, 2022
FREEWAY FIGHTERS: RECONNECTING THE CITY
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