From the Gold Rush to the Tech Revolution, the Pacific Northwest has long been known for its boomtown growth patterns. In this tour, participants will explore Seabrook, WA, a planned community that has added a rush of New Urbanist tourism to Grays Harbor County, WA’s natural resource–based economy. Seabrook aims to revive traditional town-building in a scenic location nestled between the Pacific coast and Olympic National Park, providing a new vision for sustainable prosperity and civic pride in a region shaped by both boom and bust throughout its history.

Stephen G. Poulakos, Director of Town Development, Seabrook Land Company / Laurence Qamar, Principal, Laurence Qamar Architecture & Town Planning Co. / Casey Roloff, Town Co-Founder, Town of Seabrook / Laura Roloff, Town Co-Founder, Town of Seabrook /

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This seminar is a highly condensed version of our one-day workshop. For reference, you can find a course overview and more information about our workshops and who should attend here.

This event is organized by the Incremental Development Alliance. Register at incrementaldevelopment.org/events/seattle2017.

John Anderson, Principal, Anderson|Kim Architecture + Urban Design / Jim Kumon, Executive Director, Incremental Development Alliance /

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Join CNU and CNU Cascadia for a special welcoming reception in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya Hall.

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Pick up your badge, bag, and printed program at the Registration Desk and interact with exhibitors in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya Hall.

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The increasing suburbanizing poverty in the Puget Sound basin has been well-documented but the implications on regional equity and social justice are less clear. This event will explore regional and national solutions to this critical issue.

This trend in destabilization and relocation has only intensified as the area economy has soared. As prosperous newcomers flock to the urban core, tremendous strains are placed on struggling families and communities, pushing more toward suburban communities where poverty alleviation services are weak, commute times are long, and social fabric may be thin. Even more nascent is a coordinated response on the part of key actors from the public, private, civic, and philanthropic sectors.

Join local and national experts as they describe suburbanizing poverty regionally, explore implications on governance and service provision, and find common ground in advancing pro-equity development in the face of economic dislocation. Local leaders from Seattle and Tukwila will share how they see impacts and trends and national experts will shine light on how to strengthen housing, jobs, policies, businesses and economic opportunities for low-income residents and communities of color.

Welcoming panelists and audience is nationally known singer and performer, Chenoa Egawa, a ceremonial leader and environmental activist, who will ground the discussion in the local culture and traditions.

This Congress kick-off event is free and open to the public.

Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology / Gene Duvernoy, President, Forterra / Chenoa Egawa, Ceremonial leader, Singer, Environmental Activist, & Artist, Coast Salish of the Lummi and S’Kallam Nations of Washington State / Charles Ellison, Principal and Chief Strategist, B|E Strategy / Elizabeth Kneebone, Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute / Kim Powe, Acting Deputy Director, Puget Sound Sage / De'Sean Quinn, Water Quality Planner and Project Manager, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks / Rebecca Saldaña, Senator, Washington State Legislature /

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Pick up your badge, bag, and printed program at the Registration Desk and interact with exhibitors in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya Hall.

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Bring your running shoes and join your fellow urbanists for a no-drop morning run around Central Seattle. Don't worry: you'll get back in plenty of time for morning sessions. We will form a couple of pace groups if desired, including a slower one and a moderately-paced one, so runners of all speeds and experience are welcome.

John Simmerman, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Active Towns /

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Enjoy a continental breakfast in the stunning Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall.

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Framed by historic buildings and a revitalizing waterfront, Downtown Seattle is one of the America’s most successful urban retail shopping districts. This fast-paced tour will explore the Sixth Avenue-Pike Street corridor, highlighting its successes in planning, design, and merchandising. Participants will learn about the latest trends in storefront design, visual merchandising, signage, lighting, parking, streetscaping, and parking management. Expert tour leaders will explain easy-to-use strategies with a focus on applications for growing downtowns and new town centers.

Robert Gibbs, President, Gibbs Planning Group / Terry Shook, FAIA, Founding Partner and Principal, Shook Kelley, Inc. /

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Located across Lake Washington from Seattle, the city of Bellevue is undergoing a transformation from a bedroom suburb to a walkable retail, business, and employment nexus. In this tour, participants will explore the Grand Connection, a pedestrian-oriented corridor linking the Lake Washington waterfront to Old Bellevue, the Downtown Park, retail areas, transit stations, and City Hall. From Bellevue, attendees will walk along the planned Grand Connection route with an option to eat lunch locally in Bellevue near City Hall.

Bradley Calvert, Community Development Program Manager, City of Bellevue / Philip Harris, AICP, Senior Planner /

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How does a suburban city embark on one of the most successful and ambitious suburban retrofits in the nation? In 2006, the City of Bothell, WA began a major downtown revitalization project to capitalize and expand on its existing downtown assets with new public and private investment well in excess of $650 million.

Participants will spend the morning seeing Bothell’s amazing ongoing transformation with several of the key planners who have led the effort. Tour a brand new multiway boulevard lined with mixed-use housing, walk through the recently opened renovation of a historic school into an expansive McMenamins hotel and brewpub campus, observe the realignment of a state highway that freed up acres of downtown land for new development, stroll along a newly daylit creek, see and hear about the creation of a new library and city hall and additional public and private development projects underway, and learn about the successful community-driven planning efforts undertaken and what the future has in store for the City of Bothell going forward.

Dave Boyd, Senior Planner, City of Bothell / Steve Morikawa, Capital Division Manager, City of Bothell / Gregory Tung, Principal, Freedman Tung & Sasaki /

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Some of the most beautiful streets in the world are shaped by magnificent allées, from Parisian boulevards to American Main Streets. Yet New Urbanists know well how hard it can be to build streets like those today. Landscape architects, architects, arborists, and engineers frequently conspire to stop them. In this session, we will look at how to counter the counter-arguments and how to select and plant healthy street trees that will make streets as beautiful as the historic examples we all admire. That includes looking at some secret principles of historic streets that few remember today.

Ann B. Daigle, Urban Regeneration - Design & Strategy , The CityBuilding Exchange / Douglas Duany, Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame / John Massengale, Principal, Massengale & Co LLC / Prisca Weems, Principal, FutureProof /

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The convergence of the childless households of the nation’s two largest generations provided the impetus for the revival of Downtowns and in-town neighborhoods at every scale following the turn of the century. The inevitable family households that Millennials create will challenge us to show the viability of urban neighborhoods for families; in fact, it is an opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of walkable environments as places to raise happy and self-assured children. However, the collective acknowledgment of this demand may not come in time to develop sufficiently affordable solutions unless efforts are made today to address such issues.

Steve Gillespie, Parents for a Better Downtown Seattle / Jennifer Griffin, Founding Principal, J Griffin Design, LLC / Emily Hoober George, Chair, Parents for a Better Downtown Seattle / Priya Madrecki, Senior Manager of Strategic Communications, KaBOOM! /

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The ability to quickly communicate ideas visually is a key skill for participating in the fast-paced charrette design process. Learn charrette drawing techniques used by leading New Urbanist practitioners to quickly and collaboratively explore and express design ideas.

David Csont, Architectural Illustrator, Urban Design Associates / Jennifer Garcia, Town Planner, Dover Kohl & Partners / Arti Harchekar, Associate, Opticos Design, Inc / Steve A. Mouzon, AIA, LEED, Principal, The New Urban Guild / Joe Skibba, Founder/Illustrator, Depiction Illustration /

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As Missing Middle Housing is catching on around the world, the concept and its application is evolving and becoming more sophisticated to meet the housing needs of today’s cities and regions. The panel will explore Missing Middle application in state-of-the-art density bonus and affordability housing programs, present strategies for identifying where these types should be enabled, and look at applications from AARP’s Livable Communities to New South Wales, Australia. We’ll also discuss the opportunities and challenges for large developers looking to take the Missing Middle to scale, building these “new” products to meet the growing demand for housing choice and walkable urban living.

Dennis Allen, Managing Director, Holland Partner Group / Ian Carlton, Project Director, ECONorthwest / Daniel Parolek, AIA, Principal, Opticos Design, Inc. /

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The New Urbanism movement has had a lasting impression on urban planning and design, shifting the conversation from building sprawl to building place. As practitioners, new urbanists constantly test ideas, responding to local contexts, sometimes finding out that what works in St. Petersburg doesn't play in Peoria.

Collectively, the New Urbanism movement has more than three decades of wisdom collected from designing and implementing the Charter around the world. This session asks long-time new urbanist practitioners to ponder into their decades of experience and asks them to speak to their failures and tragic missteps, and how these have informed their practice.

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As we mark twenty-five consecutive annual congresses, CNU can celebrate a host of achievements, from detailed technical changes in many of the disciplines that contribute to our built environment, to having fundamentally changed the conversation about good development and redevelopment. But, when we look at the reality of our built environment and ask, “Are we there yet?” the answer is clearly, “Not yet.”

The principles of the New Urbanism establish a physical framework that is inherently flexible and accommodating of change. However, these principles will likely be put to severe tests over the next 25 years with the rapid and dramatic changes in economics, demographics and particularly technology. Will the principles still stand? What new barriers and challenges confront the quest for rational, inclusive, human-scale neighborhoods? Experts from a range of disciplines—some of which did not exist 25 years ago—will present a glimpse of the future.

9:00 AM

Todd Zimmerman / Demographic Challenges to Urbanism / The adult residents of walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods over the next 25 years have already been born. By 2042, the oldest Boomers will be 96; Gen Xers, 77; Millennials 65; Gen Zed, 45; and the Alpha Generation, 25. What opportunities and challenges to urbanism are presented by the current make-up of American households, and what, if anything, can we forecast about long-term household behaviors affecting urban settlement patterns.

9:25 AM

Dhiru Thadani / Successional Urbanism / Successional Urbanism recognizes that places that have withstood the test of time, which are upheld as precedents to emulate, where built incrementally, financed prudently, reflected the cultural norms, and were lightly administered. They started small in the inaugural phase, the germinating idea was tested and improved, and the climax condition that we experience today may have taken many years or decades to achieve.

In recent times developers and designers have strived to compress the timeline and sought to achieve the climax condition, bypassing the inaugural condition and successional stages of urban molting. The results in most cases have been unsatisfactory and financially precarious.

Successional Urbanism endeavors to develop protocols for every level—design, financial, administrative, and cultural—that will allow incremental growth to occur again.

9:45 AM

June Williamson / The Future of Suburban Retrofit / June Williamson, co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, will share her insights on how new technologies, demographics and climates will impact Suburban Retrofit projects over the next 25 years. Will emerging disruptions to private retailers and public agencies lead to new approaches to finance, zoning and economic development? Which property types will fail next and will they be more suited for reinhabitation, redevelopment or regreening? How might all of these changes accelerate the quantity and quality of suburban retrofits?

10:15 – 10:45 AM / Break

10:45

Elizabeth Christoforetti / Big Data for Small Places / There are reams of urban data in the world, but the realms of urban design and development aren't doing the best job taking advantage of this data to make places better. Elizabeth helped found Supernormal to change this. Supernormal bridges the disciplines of architecture, urban design, and planning with the goal of bringing increased sensitivity and systematization to urban development through the use of improved quantitative methods. New Urbanists are well-suited to learn from this approach. Christoforetti will explain how this new approach can improve the design, development and management of cities.

11:05 AM

Lisa Picard & Boaz Ashkenazy / Visualizing Place With VR, AR, & Mixed-Reality / Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality is at the forefront of innovation in the architecture and real estate development realm. West Coast cities in the Bay Area and Seattle are home to a number of innovative minds employing virtual and augmented reality platforms like the Oculus Rift and HoloLense to the design of physical spaces.

Boaz Ashkenazy, co-founder of Studio 216, outlines ways in which real estate professionals can experience unbuilt environment using virtual reality, architectural visualization, and mobile applications. Lisa Picard, real estate developer and former VP at Skanska, takes it one step further, positing ways in which these new technologies will change how we engage the public and clients about new developments and changes to our cities.

This series of talks will continue in the afternoon.

Todd Zimmerman, Principal, Zimmerman/Volk Associates, Inc. /

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Is God really in the details? Find out as we focus on design elements of buildings ranging from English Gothic to Brutalism and from Beaux Arts to Modernism. Construction techniques, trends in aesthetics and functional considerations of windows and views contributed to these structures. You will explore how the use and incorporation of glass reflects changing societal trends. Featured stops include the Financial Center, the Plymouth Congregational Church and the Fairmont Olympic Hotel.

This tour is done in partnership with the Seattle Architecture Foundation.

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Grab coffee, tea, and other refreshments in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya or Lobby of the Seattle Art Museum.

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This session would highlight how changes in transportation performance measures such as the switch from LOS to VMT in California due to Senate Bill (SB) 743 are influencing urban design and environmental outcomes.

Chris Ganson, Senior Planner, California Governor's Office of Planning and Research / Ronald T. Milam, Director of Evolving the Status Quo, Fehr & Peers / Chris Yake, Senior Transportation Planner, Policy & Planning, City of Seattle /

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As an implementation tool, form-based zoning responds directly to the community’s policy direction to express different priorities by geographic location. Learn how to use the various components within one code to regulate and generate the community vision across very different areas with different expectations. For example, a corridor with high expectations will tend to use most or all of the code’s components and have more detailed regulations while a corridor with modest expectations will tend to use fewer of those components and have less detailed regulations. Join an interactive discussion where leading practitioners discuss ways to respond to community needs and priorities for the next 25 years.

Marcy McInelly, AIA, President, Urbsworks, Inc / Tony Perez, Director of Form-Based Coding, Opticos Design / Lisa Wise, AICP, President, Lisa Wise Consulting, Inc. /

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Emotion sells! Learn how to use dramatic color and lighting schemes to magnify the emotional impact of your design illustrations. We will focus on how to emulate the powerful ambiance of urban environments seen at various times of the day and night.

David Csont, Architectural Illustrator, Urban Design Associates / James Dougherty, Director of Design, Dover, Kohl & Partners Planning / Joe Skibba, Founder/Illustrator, Depiction Illustration /

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The CNU and its members have achieved a remarkable number of accomplishments over the past 25 years— ideas, projects, interventions, and more. But there's more work to do. This is a special roundtable discussion is dedicated to looking at the next 25 years of challenges facing the CNU. Each panelist will panelist will share his or her view of the top three (or fewer) future challenges facing the movement over the next 25 years. After these ideas are laid out, the remaining time will be spent in robust conversation responding to and discussing the ideas. CNU Founder Stefanos Polyzoides will moderate.

Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Georgia Institute of Technology / Eliza Harris Juliano, Director of Urbanism, Canin Associates / Jennifer Hurley, AICP, NJPP, CNU-A, President & CEO, Hurley-Franks & Associates / Kevin Klinkenberg, AIA, Executive Director, Savannah Development and Renewal Authority / Thomas Pacello, President, Memphis Medical District Collaborative / Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists / Erika Ragsdale, Planning Coordinator, City of San Antonio / Scot Spencer, Associate Director, Advocacy & Influence, Annie E. Casey Foundation /

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The European refugee migration crisis could well be the biggest settlement challenge of our time and one only likely to get worse with climate change. At the same time, in the US homeless populations have grown considerably over the years. Both populations experience unique needs, which properly addressed, can allow them to integrate successfully into societies.

Moderated by CNU founder Elizabeth Moule, this session will examine both crises, as there are lessons linking both challenges. What are the ways in which refugees can be meaningfully served immediately? How can new migrants interweave into already settled places over the long run and how do we make sustainable communities that can serve multiple populations that will inevitably shift over the decades? What lessons can be learned from the history of neighborhood settlements such as Testaccio in Rome? What opportunities exist for established countries like Italy or Greece? How, along with addressing the mental and physical health issues of the homeless, can cities provide emergency, transitional and affordable housing in conjunction with other services to get people off the streets and into homes?

Michael Lykoudis, Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame / Ettore Maria Mazzola, Associate Professor of the Practice, Rome, University of Notre Dame / Elizabeth Moule, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists / Daniel Solomon, Principal, Mithun | Solomon /

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Participants in this tour will explore South Lake Union, a once-sleepy commercial and industrial district that has undergone a profound transformation into a diverse, walkable hub for tech giants like Amazon and the biotech-focused Allen Institutes. Discussion items will include strategies for creating successful mixed use neighborhoods, attracting Millennials and highly-educated workers, integrating a new streetcar, using the right-of-way for more than transportation, achieving LEED-ND certification, and creating a new urban boulevard.

Lyle Bicknell, Principal Urban Designer, City of Seattle /

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Lunch on your own. Stroll through Pike Place Market, visit the food trucks at Westlake Park, or dine in nearby Pioneer Square. Or if you're in a hurry, grab lunch in the Benaroya's cafe area.

If you're participating in a member-led session, remember these start promptly at 1:00 PM. Keep in mind that you're not allowed to bring food into our meeting rooms.

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The session will discuss the intersection of faith, faith communities and design professionals in shaping the built environment for the Common Good. Set within a historical context, the presenters will illustrate how faith-motivated designers, churches and other faith communities can positively impact the built environment by seeking the “shalom” of the neighborhood. The illustrations will include historic examples and a case study of the Third Church Charrette. (Hosted by the CNU Members Christian Caucus).

Christopher Miller, Professor, Judson University / Andrew Moore, Principal & Director of the Urban Architecture Studio, Glavé & Holmes Architecture / Michael Watkins, AIA, AICP, NCARB, LEED AP, CNU-A, Architect, Michael Watkins Architect, LLC /

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The future of our cities is the future of our society. UrbanFootprint informs their growth with information, design tools, and an expanding range of analysis. It provides a comprehensive data base, state-of-the-art urban design options, and facile scenario tools for projects, cities and regions. It shows real impacts in real time, integrating environmental, social, and economic analysis into the decision making and approval process.

UrbanFootprint can be used at many scales for many users. It supports projects at telescoping scales from infill sites and local neighborhood strategies to corridor, district, city and regional policy and master plans. Learn how you can apply this tool from its creators.

Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Calthorpe Associates / Joe DiStefano, ‎Principal & Co-Founder, Calthorpe Analytics /

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The fourth annual Urban Landscape Council (ULC) will be moderated by Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Stephanie Bothwell Urban and Landscape Design (stephanie.bothwell@verizon.net) and Tom Comitta, ASLA, Thomas Comitta Associates. The purpose of the ULC is to advocate for great urban landscape design, education and policy. This year, we are joined by Stephen Poulakos, Seabrook Director of Town Planning, who will discuss the role of landscape design and planning in new urbanist communities.

This follows on his all day Seabrook tour that occurred on Tuesday. Preview his projects at seabrookwa.com, rosemarybeach.com, and draperlake.com. Along with other topics, we will discuss the CNU Climate Change Initiative in anticipation of Saturday’s session.

Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Stephanie Bothwell Urban & Landscape Design / Stephen G. Poulakos, Director of Town Development, Seabrook Land Company /

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As they celebrate their recently published book, “Architects of Community”, this session will discuss how the practice behind the work of Torti Gallas + Partners operates. The people, evolution, methodologies, organization, mentoring practices, design philosophy, discourses, research, real estate, social justice, awards, competitions, business model, and the aspirations of Torti Gallas + Partners will be shared. Bring your questions and find out how the practice behind their projects works!

John Torti, President, Torti Gallas & Partners, Inc. /

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Each year, CNU partners with our Congress host region to empower local leaders, advocates, and residents to implement New Urbanist principles through Legacy Projects. These projects culminate in three-day on-site workshops that explore opportunities, identify crucial roadblocks, engage local residents in visioning, and generate top-of-the-line design and placemaking strategies for pressing local challenges. While each communities' dilemmas are context-sensitive, the design teams' proposed solutions have wide applicability.

This year, practitioners helped identify the essential character elements in Seattle's Central Area, in order to assist the community-led design guidelines development. In suburban Tukwila, one of the most diverse zip codes in the United State, practitioners reimagined International Boulevard as a vibrant, walkable main street corridor. In both places, community leaders are determined to turn drawings into real development. Learn from these local examples as community leaders share their most pressing problems and new urban practitioners present strategies and solutions.

Hazel Borys, Managing Principal, PlaceMakers / Arti Harchekar, Associate, Opticos Design, Inc /

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Participants on this tour will visit new transit-oriented communities in Bellevue and Redmond, two fast-changing suburbs with major plans for walkability, development, and high-tech economic growth. The tour includes the Spring District, a 36-acre mixed-use neighborhood with multi-use, office, and residential space adjacent to a light rail station, including the Global Innovation Exchange, a joint venture of the University of Washington, China’s Tsinghua University, and Microsoft, the future headquarters of REI. It ends at the future Redmond Technology Center station site adjacent to Microsoft’s main campus.

Andrew Bauer, Senior Planner, City of Redmond / Emil King, Strategic Planning Manager, City of Bellevue / John Marchione, Mayor, City of Redmond /

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In Seattle's innovative green urban district of High Point, this tour will showcase how partnerships and great design came together to create a sustainable mixed-income community with 1,600 homes and 3,500 residents—and provide an unvarnished look at the unique challenges that surface when piloting new green technologies and strategies. Led by High Point's developer and civil engineer, participants will discuss topics including the area's 120-acre Natural Drainage System, green affordable housing, public health advances that enriched the site, partnerships with City agencies and local groups, and, crucially, the community outreach that included all High Point neighbors. A diverse panel of High Point residents and service providers will share their perspective on this mixed-income social experiment.

Tom Phillips, Developer/Project Manager, High Point / Peg Staeheli, Principal, MIG|SvR /

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In Seattle, a growing awareness of the lack of Missing Middle Housing types like duplexes, fourplexes, bungalow courts, and live-work units has highlighted the nationwide mismatch between existing housing stock, changing demographics, and demand for walkability. In this tour, participants will explore and document Seattle’s Missing Middle Housing while discussing challenging affordability issues. The walk will present a chance to learn how to support these types through smart planning and zoning, and to understand barriers affecting the construction of new Missing Middle Housing.

Daniel Parolek, AIA, Principal, Opticos Design, Inc. / Linda Pruitt, President, The Cottage Company / Eli Spevak, Developer and Principal, Orange Splot LLC /

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For four decades New Urbanists have targeted select Freeways Without Futures with demolition and boulevard conversion. Now a technological sea change of vehicle-sharing, remote work, and virtual socialization among younger generations has moved us beyond the era of Peak Highway and will provide us with the opportunity to reconsider the presence of all highways in urban areas.

Join our panelists to widen your perspective from a focus on the boulevard to the investigation of effective political coalitions, the design of livable infrastructure that a post-car, shared mobility age requires, and the policy frameworks we will need to leverage the highways of today into the foundational infrastructure of tomorrow.

Andrew Faulker, Urban Designer, Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP / Patrick Kennedy, Founding Partner, Space Between Design Studio / Ian Lockwood, Livable Transportation Engineer, Toole Design Group / Chris Sensenig, Urban Designer, Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP /

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The term stress test is most often associated with going to your doctor's office to take a jog on a treadmill or as a check of financial health inside a bank. In search of properties that have the proper zoning to allow Missing Middle Buildings and other incremental development approaches, a new type of stress test has emerged. The purpose is to examine the readiness of a municipality's existing building and zoning codes to allow typical 1-3 story buildings on small lots. It also uses financial proformas to properly calibrate expectations for the current and near future development potential for different scales of buildings from snow cone stands to mixed use podium buildings. This can be particularly useful when transit, tax increment financing or other major changes that are counting on new development are in play.

This session will examine stress test results in several cities and discuss the actionable steps that can be taken to make text amendments and basic workarounds to legalize as much as possible with the lightest political and technical lift.

John Anderson, Principal, Anderson|Kim Architecture + Urban Design / Kenny Asher, Community Development Director, City of Tigard / Jim Kumon, Executive Director, Incremental Development Alliance /

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Well-designed branding gives your real estate project a strong identity in the minds of your audience. Learn steps to brainstorm your brand and then to how to communicate it with a powerful graphic brand message.

Michael Courtney, Principal, Creative Director, Michael Courtney Design /

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On affordability, Mark Santrach will talk about alternative home ownership strategies. Scott Polikov will talk about how suburbs can become the new "melting pot" for housing reform in terms of creating opportunities to "move up" without having to move out of the neighborhood, with the possibility of creating great neighborhoods within sprawl. James Bruce and Evan Corey will make a joint presentation on how sustainable e-commerce solutions stand to deliver more walkable communities.

On equity, Nidhi Gulati will talk about how urban greenways linked together can create the innovative new whole of "Networks" as a way of attaining equity, and connecting people to places and each other, forming the backbone of a historic urban fabric. Jay Crossley will conduct an interactive exercise to demonstrate a Quick Equity Assessment program.

On diversity, Andrew Georgiadis will talk about how we can balance streamlined and predictable approvals after the charrette takes place and the Form-based Code has been created with with the needs and desires of the people who live there. Robert Orr will talk about why and how to make small and locally capitalized development viable again, with the goal to restore the ability of small, local developers known by their communities, but limited in their resources, to produce great places.

Jay Crossley, Houston Tomorrow / Kristal Fiser, Director of State Government Affairs, UPS / Andrew Georgiadis, President, Georgiadis Urban Design / Nidhi Gulati, Program Manager | Emerald Network, LivableStreets Alliance / Robert Orr, FAIA, LEED, Principal, 2-term President, Robert Orr & Associates LLC, CNU New England / Scott Polikov, President, Gateway Planning Group / Mark Santrach, Architect, Robert A.M. Stern Architects / Emily Talen, Ph.D., FAICP, Professor, University of Chicago /

As we mark twenty-five consecutive annual congresses, CNU can celebrate a host of achievements, from detailed technical changes in many of the disciplines that contribute to our built environment, to having fundamentally changed the conversation about good development and redevelopment. But, when we look at the reality of our built environment and ask, “Are we there yet?” the answer is clearly, “Not yet.”

The principles of the New Urbanism establish a physical framework that is inherently flexible and accommodating of change. However, these principles will likely be put to severe tests over the next 25 years with the rapid and dramatic changes in economics, demographics and particularly technology. Will the principles still stand? What new barriers and challenges confront the quest for rational, inclusive, human-scale neighborhoods? Experts from a range of disciplines—some of which did not exist 25 years ago—will present a glimpse of the future.

2:30 PM

Karen Minkel / Making the Ripples Go Farther / Philanthropy can help jumpstart the transformation of communities, especially in parts of the country that could benefit most from public-private collaboration. In Northwest Arkansas, a region of 32 municipalities, the Walton Family Foundation has played a catalytic role in forging regional partnerships that are challenging assumptions about trail networks and human transit. Learn how a diverse coalition of local government, businesses, and a foundation are helping a region get out in front of rapid growth and into vibrant future.

2:45 PM

Jarrett Walker / Planning Transit: Can We Live Without Predictions? / Transportation planning seems, at times, to be all about prediction. Consultants vie to do the best models. Journalists do gotcha stories about whether predictions were right. Competing predictions confuse local elected officials and activists. Jarrett Walker explores how much prediction we really need, and how our longing to know the future may interfere with our ability to have clear conversations. While the focus here in on transit, the insights may be useful to people in all aspects of planning.

3:10 PM

Jonathan F.P. Rose / Our Collective Future / Today’s cities are technical marvels, reflecting civilization’s enormous scientific strides. Human creativity has produced unimagined power and prosperity, although that prosperity has come at a price: it is poorly distributed, and it is fostering the next great extinction. By the end of the 21st century, 80% of the world’s human population will live in cities. If we are to address these problems, cities must be part of the solution. We must knit these threads—our technical, cognitive, and social potential and the generative power of nature—back together, toward a higher purpose for cities. And we can only achieve this if we recognize that we are all in it together. The issues of climate change and income inequality will touch every one of us in different ways, but we can only solve them as a civilization focused on collective goals. And the best place to start is with our cities.

3:45 – 4:15 PM / Break

4:15 PM

Larry Frank / Predicting the Health Impact of Built, Natural & Social Environments / There has been an avalanche of data and information confirming the strong connection between public health and the built environment, yet the use of that information by practitioners advancing the principles of New Urbanism has been episodic at best. In his talk, Frank will explore how this can and will change in the coming years.

4:40 PM

Jeff Risom / Design for Inclusive Public Life / As urbanists, we understand that urban design can either perpetuate inequality or promote social justice. But design of public space is only part of the equation. Creating a thriving public life that invites people from different places and different walks of life can provide exposure to people who are different—socially, ethnically, politically. Can exposure and contact with people who are different from us help address major urban challenges—inequality, public health, and access to opportunity? Can these micro-moments, small glimpses into the lives of people taking place in streets and public spaces, become an equalizing force in our polarized society? Jeff Risom, Partner and Managing Director of Gehl US, lays out his vision for the future of inclusive public life.

Todd Zimmerman, Principal, Zimmerman/Volk Associates, Inc. /

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Grab coffee, tea, and other refreshments in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya or Lobby of the Seattle Art Museum.

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Parking impacts the public realm and the experience people have in a City or neighborhood. It also influences neighborhood urban form and housing affordability. Next Generation Parking Strategies balance supply and demand, identify parking availability, influence mode choice and provide systems that are user-friendly. These strategies are incorporating technologies and evolving as vehicle ownership decreases and mode choice changes. Private and public entities are considering how to manage curb space to accommodate the evolving parking needs of neighborhoods. In addition, decisions are increasingly being driven by data, allowing parking pricing to better align with demand to encourage turnover and improve predictability and availability throughout the day. This session brings together transportation analysts, planners, and developers from the private and public sector to discuss how we are planning for parking in the future.

Alex Brennan, Senior Planner, Capitol Hill Housing / Stefanie Herzstein, Senior Transportation Engineer, Transpo Group / Dan McKinney, Principal, Transpo Group / Daniel Rowe, Senior Transportation Planner, King County Metro Transit /

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Many high-cost US cities are faced with housing shortages exacerbated by rules that restrict homebuilding. Bringing together experts from Seattle, Portland, and Oakland, this session will examine the latest efforts to improve equitable access to housing by fixing overly restrictive zoning and regulations.

Dan Bertolet, Senior Research, Housing and Urbanism , Sightline Institute / Kate Howe, Director, VIA Architecture / Madeline Kovacs, Programs Coordinator, Portland for Everyone / Spencer Williams, Legislative Assistant to Seattle City Councilmember Rob Johnson /

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More and more communities are seeking to grow with less reliance on the automobile by encouraging Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). Design matters! Learn to employ specific physical design principles to ensure these new developments function properly and result in great places.

Neal Payton FAIA, AIA, Principal, Torti Gallas and Partners, Inc. /

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On improving the public process, Will Dowdy will explore the growing field of economic cartography, which maps and visually presents land values, diving into the nuts and bolts of bringing the ideas that have been developed by Urban3, StrongTowns, and others. Jennifer Griffin will talk about how communities of faith stand in an important position to support vibrant, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. Larry Schooler will pull from his experiences in Austin, TX to highlight productive, powerful public engagement for new urbanists. Claire Flurin will present the PUREHOUSE LAB, a non-profit crowd-sourcing platform that facilitates the creation of co-living spaces. Then, Bill Lennertzt of the National Charrette Institute shares "Collaboration by Design," the principles and tools that take the public beyond involvement to commitment.

On hacking the public process, Timo Hamalainen will share how a grassroots masterplan was designed by a group of activists to hack Helsinki's official masterplan process, bypassing the typical barriers to public participation.

Margaret Wallace Brown will conclude this session by conducting a mini-workshop, asking the audience to identify the biggest issues confronting them and their communities, as well as share their brightest ideas about public engagement.

Jonathan Berk, New England Director, Patronicity / Will Dowdy, Urban Designer, City of Eugene / Claire Flurin, Vectuel / Jennifer Griffin, Founding Principal, J Griffin Design, LLC / Timo Hämäläinen, Urban Policy Advisor, MDI - Management Design Intelligence / Bill Lennertz, Founder, National Charrette Institute / Matthew Lewis, President & CEO, SimpleCityDesign / Larry Schooler, Manager of Public Engagement, City of Austin / Margaret Wallace Brown, Deputy Director, Planning & Development Department, City of Houston /

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To commemorate CNU 25, Project for Public Spaces invites you to attend our third round of Beers with Engineers. This time around PPS will be toasting engineer’s role in New Urbanism.

Join PPS for a wide-ranging panel discussion about improving our streets and our communities, including designing bike lanes, calming traffic, planning for self-driving cars, fostering equity in transportation and the engineering profession, navigating your transportation department, and more. Our forum is intended to help forge relationships between your local transportation engineer and the interested public. RSVP here.

Space at the Steps - GGLO / 1301 First Avenue

Gary Toth, Senior Director, Transportation Initiatives, Project for Public Spaces /

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Join CNU for a pre-plenary reception in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya Hall and mingle with fellow attendees, exhibitors, and friends.

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In the spirit of amplifying the voices of women to make cities better for everyone. There will be happenings occurring each day that serve as opportunities to meet, think, collaborate, empower and support one another. The dates and times for the meetings, events and activities can be found at facebook.com/groups/CNUUrbanistas or on Twitter at #CNUUrbanistas.

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As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods, the promise and potential of using our older and historic buildings to revitalize our cities is stronger than ever. As such, Stephanie K. Meeks, president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, provides a detailed look at the innovative ways historic preservation can create thriving communities. She explains the critical importance of preservation for all our cities, the ways the historic preservation field has evolved to embrace the challenges of the twenty-first century, and the innovative work being done in the preservation space now.

This urban resurgence is a national phenomenon, boosting cities from Cleveland to Buffalo and Portland to Pittsburgh. Experts offer a range of theories on what is driving the return to the city, from the impact of the recent housing crisis to a desire to be socially engaged, live near work, and reduce automobile use. However, there is also more to it. Time and again, when asked why they moved to the city, people talk about the desire to live somewhere distinctive, to be some place rather than no place. Often these distinguishing urban landmarks are exciting neighborhoods Miami boasts its Art Deco district, New Orleans the French Quarter. Sometimes, as in the case of Baltimore's historic rowhouses, the most distinguishing feature is the urban fabric itself. While many aspects of this urban resurgence are a cause for celebration, the changes have also brought to the forefront issues of access, affordable housing, inequality, sustainability, and how we should commemorate difficult history. This presentation speaks directly to all of these issues.

A book signing will immediately follow.

The 2017 Congress Legacy Project teams will also present their final reports to their legacy communities.

Stephanie Meeks, President & Chief Executive Officer, National Trust for Historic Preservation /

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The New Urbanism Film Festival showcases short and feature length documentaries about the urban environment. Held every Fall in Los Angeles, audiences are engaged in new urbanism theory, history, and practical case studies. This special event showcases the winning short films from the 2016 festival.

Northwest Film Forum / 1515 12th Avenue in Capitol Hill

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Are you temperamentally conservative? A self-identified libertarian or a fiscal hawk? Center-right curious? The R Street Institute and The American Conservative invite you to gather with like-minded urbanists for a casual reception at The Alibi Room. Shelter within the walls of this speakeasy deep within Pike Place Market to meet and drink with other conservative urbanists from across the country to compare notes and lift a toast to traditional development.

The Alibi Room / 85 Pike St #410 (in Post Alley)

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A CNU tradition! Make new friends and catch up with the old ones on the annual NextGen pub crawl. Meet from the CNU reception at Benaroya Hall and head to the Belltown neighborhood.

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Pick up your badge, bag, and printed program at the Registration Desk and interact with exhibitors in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya Hall.

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Bring your running shoes and join your fellow urbanists for a no-drop morning run around Central Seattle. Don't worry: you'll get back in plenty of time for morning sessions. We will form a couple of pace groups if desired, including a slower one and a moderately-paced one, so runners of all speeds and experience are welcome.

John Simmerman, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Active Towns /

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The CNU Members Christian Caucus-—whose purpose is to support CNU by extending the concepts and practices of New Urbanism to the Christian community—is convening for a breakfast meet-up and annual business meeting. To learn more about the CNU-MCC go to this link or e-mail Chris Elisara at ccspchris@mac.com.

Grab your breakfast and head the mezzanine (2nd) level of the Grand Lobby in the Benaroya Hall.

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Enjoy a continental breakfast in the stunning Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall.

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A gathering of developers and aspiring developers interested in building smaller scale/incremental urban projects. Rookies, come and find a mentor, expand your network, and reduce your learning curve! Seasoned developers, come and help rookies avoid your mistakes.

Grab breakfast beforehand or bring it with you to the Founders Room in the Benaroya Hall.

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In this tour, Congress attendees will examine the progress and vision of Waterfront Seattle, a multi-year program to transform Seattle’s waterfront following the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Spanning from Pioneer Square to Belltown, the project area includes new park space, improved connections to and from downtown, a new surface street, access to Elliott Bay, and a rebuilt Elliott Bay Seawall. Led by the director of the Office of the Waterfront, participants will discuss design efforts to capitalize on view opportunities, project partners like the historic Pike Place Market, and the challenges and opportunities of removing an elevated highway to open up a waterfront.

Joshua Curtis, Partnerships Manager, Office of the Waterfront, City of Seattle / Wren McNally, Associate, EnviroIssues /

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Climate change, groundwater depletion, combined sewer overflows and water quality issues are challenging communities everywhere - especially where suburban development patterns exacerbate the problems. A number of suburban retrofits have seized the opportunity to rethink how we deal with water and provide useful lessons for new urbanists. Starting with an overview of innovative case studies retrofitting water, this session will then dive deeply into how Hassalo on 8th in Portland saves money and water quality with the nation’s largest organic water recycling machine and how the retrofit of the 116-acre Parkmerced apartment complex outside of San Francisco is reversing decades of aquifer depletion while urbanizing.

Leo Chow, AIA, Design Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP / Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Georgia Institute of Technology / Pete Munoz, Bioregional Team Lead, Biohabitats /

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Households often make trade-offs between transportation and housing expenditures; they can purchase a cheaper urban fringe house with high transportation costs, or pay more for a house in a more accessible location which reduces vehicle expenses. These trade-offs can have significant economic impacts. By choosing a more accessible home that reduces the costs of owning a second car and shifting the savings to housing investments a typical household can build an additional $65,000 in equity after one decade, and about $500,000 after 25 years. These budget shifts also increase developer and real estate industry profits, and local government tax revenues per capita.

Living in a more accessible, less automobile-dependent neighborhood can also provide livability benefits including reduced time spend driving, improved mobility options for non-drivers, increased traffic safety, plus improved public fitness and health. Home buyers, developers, real estate professionals and local officials tend to overlook or undervalue these benefits. We have an important and positive story to tell about the long term value of creating more accessible and multi-modal communities. Urbanists have good reasons to support Smart Growth policies, affordable infill, transit-oriented development, and new mobility options such as ride hailing, bike- and car-sharing, teleworking and navigation services which allow residents to reduce their vehicle costs.

This session will discuss how more accessible development and new mobility options can help create more prosperous and livable communities, and how to communicate those benefits to key stakeholders.

Peter Katz, Consultant and Author, The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community / Todd Litman, Founder & Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute /

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This session will provide ways to work around and through regulatory barriers to incremental development. We will discuss the concept of Regulatory Blight and discuss ways to get past this from both a municipal and private sector standpoint. There will be a specific focus on putting typical Main Street buildings back into productive use, with pathways to navigate building codes and ADA. Specific incremental redevelopments will be presented to demonstrate these principles as well. The goal is to highlight places that Lean and Incremental Urbanism can thrive and flourish.

Eric Kronberg, Principal, Kronberg Wall Architects / Thomas Pacello, President, Memphis Medical District Collaborative / Paddy Steinschneider, President & Founder, Gotham Design & Community Development Ltd. /

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Sit at the tables where it's decided where new housing will go, or how to add bike lanes to a city street, or whether resources will be allocated to protect clean water, and you will probably need to ask "where are all the people of color?" In 2016, it remains the case that the majority of the people who design, plan, and build communities and cities lack the diversity of those same places. This panel will explore the dearth of diversity in urban design and planning—and its impact on our practice and the communities we create and serve. It will also suggest ways to build a pipeline of talent that better reflects the cities in which we live and work.

Co-organized by the Island Press Urban Resilience Project

Justin Garrett Moore, ‎Executive Director, NYC Public Design Commission / Shelley R. Poticha, Director, Urban Solutions, Urban Program, Natural Resource Defense Council / Ron Sims, Retired Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developement / Emily Talen, Ph.D., FAICP, Professor, University of Chicago /

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Walkable streets are fundamental to building livable communities - and their details matter. Join us as we explore the components and dimensions of a wide range of walkable street types, and how to select which street types are appropriate for a given context.

Kenneth Garcia, Town Planner, Dover, Kohl & Partners / Richard Hall, P.E., President, Hall Planning & Engineering Inc. /

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Explore some of downtown’s hidden treasures, like public parks, plazas and open spaces. Many of these spaces are owned by private developers but are in fact places where you can enjoy beautiful landscapes and private art collections away from the hustle and bustle of city streets.

Hidden Spaces/Public Places also features a number of stairs and concludes at the Harbor Steps. Please let your guide know if you, or another member of your party, have any restrictions.

This tour is done in partnership with the Seattle Architecture Foundation.

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Seattle’s downtown is transforming rapidly, adding jobs and housing at record rates, all while Seattle’s light rail system expands dramatically and downtown bus service is restructured. This growth and expansion creates an unparalleled opportunity to implement a safe, comfortable, and connected network of protected bike lanes from downtown to the outlying neighborhoods—creating a true multimodal transportation system. Join representatives from Cascade Bicycle Club and the City of Seattle to discuss the One City Center project (a 20-year mobility plan for downtown Seattle neighborhoods) and explore the city by bike. Learn about the future of downtown infrastructure from those that know it best, and discuss how bikes and transit can work together as an integrated urban mobility solution.

Dongho Chang, City Traffic Engineer , City of Seattle / Kelsey Mesher, Puget Sound Policy Manager, Cascade Bicycle Club / Sandra "Sam" Woods, Project Manager, Center City Bike Network /

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Grab a to-go cup of coffee, tea, or other refreshment in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya or Lobby of the Seattle Art Museum and walk over to the Moore Theatre for the morning plenary.

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A challenging morning plenary held in the historic Moore Theatre. Leading urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter examines sustainability from the perspective of human capital, exploring how communities can build wealth “where they are” using talent-retention strategies. Then, Sustainable Urbanism pioneer Doug Farr draws on years of experience and research from his forthcoming book Sustainable Nation to lay out a vision for a walkable nation in four generations.

Majora Carter / Communities as Corporations / How can talent-retention strategies mitigate fears of displacement in re-urbanizing America? Decades of social services spending on education, health, and other deficits found in low-status communities have not resulted in greater prosperity there, in part because the individual success stories usually leave in search of lifestyle infrastructure that meets their demands as soon as they are able. The absence of local reinvestment paves the way so called "gentrification" and bargain hunting by outsiders. How can we help people see the value of where they are, and incite them to build wealth where they are?

Doug Farr / A Sustainable Nation in Four Generations / The timeline of climate change is long, but our time to act is short. Even the best-intentioned sustainable building rating systems barely make a dent in reducing the emissions that are leading to an increasingly warmer, less-predictable planet. Moreover, humans are ill equipped for the long-term and collective thinking required for meaningful climate change action. In his address to the Congress, author of Sustainable Urbanism Doug Farr examines the powerful cultural forces in recent history that have successful influenced societies’ behaviors for the better and expands on the themes from his forthcoming book, Sustainable Nation, to lay out a path forward for a sustainable nation in four generations.

Majora Carter, Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant, Real Estate Developer, Marjora Carter Group / Doug Farr, CNU-A, President and Founding Principal, Farr Associates Architecture & Urban Design / Lynn Richards, President & CEO, CNU /

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Lunch on your own. Stroll through Pike Place Market, visit the food trucks at Westlake Park, or dine in nearby Pioneer Square. Or if you're in a hurry, grab lunch in the Benaroya's cafe area.

If you're participating in a member-led session, remember these start promptly at 1:00 PM. Keep in mind that you're not allowed to bring food into our meeting rooms.

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CNU began an Initiative on mixed use finance years ago. This session will feature a presentation by Ben Schweitzer from Freddie Mac. Freddie's "Small Balance Loan Program" is a close match to what the Initiative sought. It offers long-term finance for projects with up to 40% non-residential use (and up to 49% in some situations, e.g. if rents are affordable). The loan caps were recently raised by 50% for high-cost markets (to $7.5 million) and 100% (to $6 million) elsewhere. Yes, Virginia, New Urbanism CAN be financed!

Richard L. Oram, Chairman, Fund for the Environment and Urban Life / Ben Schweitzer, Underwriting Director, Freddie Mac Multifamily /

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In the last two years, three important urban initiatives have been agreed by most governments of the world, including the Paris Climate Accord, the Sustainable Development Goals, and especially relevant to us, the New Urban Agenda. But how will these agreements be implemented, and what role will New Urbanists play? Learn about the contents of the New Urban Agenda, and the role you might play in the implementation effort. (See also the Saturday's session Intersectional Feminism.)

This session will also launch the new CNU Members International Caucus, which is preparing to participate in an upcoming international “council” of urbanists.

Joanna Alimanestianu, Co-founder, Council for European Urbanism / Andrés Duany, Principal, DPZ Partners / Chris Elisara, Producer, First+Main Media / Doug S. Kelbaugh, FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan / Michael Mehaffy, President, Senior Researcher, Structura Naturalis Inc., KTH Royal Institute of Technology /

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Over the last three decades, hundreds of communities have explored the use of form-based codes and many have adopted them. While the first modern code was created for a small resort new town, form-based codes have been adapted to and adopted by communities as diverse as Miami, Nashville, and Santa Ana, CA. In the process, community leaders and code writers have learned how to craft codes that match the culture, vision, and needs of their localities.

In this member-led session, leaders from the Form-based Codes Institute, along with recent winners of the Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award, will lead a workshop for local planners and civic leaders to discuss lessons learned along the way for what works and what doesn’t when drafting and implementing FBCs.

Susan Henderson, AIA, LEED AP, CNU-A, Principal, PlaceMakers LLC / Mary E. Madden, Principal, Ferrell Madden Lewis, LLC / Lisa Wise, AICP, President, Lisa Wise Consulting, Inc. /

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The world of walkable urban street design is changing rapidly. At the state level, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is leading the way. Prior to CNU 25.Seattle, FDOT will release their Complete Streets Handbook draft. The document's Core Concepts are:

• Streets serve needs of system users of all ages and abilities, including all travel modes
• Streets are context sensitive, where system design considers local land development patterns
• Streets can help to promote safety, quality of life, and economic development

This new document builds on flexibility and innovation to ensure that all state roadways are developed based on their context. These concepts support CNU design principles and represent a major step forward for walkable street design in traditional neighborhood design.

This session will include a briefing based on the FDOT Complete Streets Handbook DRAFT. The goal is to raise awareness and generate comments CNU can send for FDOT use as well as discuss how the Core Concepts within it can inspire state Departments of Transportation around the country to enshrine context-sensitive street design into their state guidance documents. Consider attending the session if streets are ever a concern in your planning and design work.

Richard Hall, P.E., President, Hall Planning & Engineering Inc. /

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This session is dedicated to discussing the vital subject of architectural character. Architectural character concerns two scales, that of individual buildings and that of an urban ensemble. In other words, character concerns the compositional qualities that fit each building’s purpose (architecture) and the ways in which multiple buildings additively make a sense of place (urbanism). We see this on the level of the building, the street, the square, quarter, city, region and nation. Discussing architectural character allows us to move beyond the problems associated with stylistic classifications, or the so-called style wars.

The participants in this session will address the following themes:

1. What does architecture express and what is the role therein of architectural composition?
2. What is the relationship between building purpose and architectural character?
3. How do architectural characters additively achieve the urban sense of place?
4. In building the character of a place (city, region, nation) how do different elements of buildings migrate and how are they incorporated and transformed in other buildings?
5. Conversely, what are the factors that contribute to the debasing of architectural character and the urban sense of place?

Douglas Duany, Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame / John Dutton, Principal, Dutton Architects, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Southern California / Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists / Bill Westfall, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame / Samir Younés, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame /

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Take an essential Seattle stroll through the Capitol Hill Arts District, the City’s first official Arts & Cultural District and a nexus of cultural activity for decades. Once known as Auto Row for its 1940’s car dealerships, the Pike/Pine Corridor is now one of the most influential cultural neighborhoods on the West Coast. Seattle Cultural Space Liaison Matthew Richer will lead participants through a tour of several of the area's 40+ arts & cultural spaces—which include music clubs, cinemas, theaters, galleries, studios, art supply houses, a dance center, and even a graffiti supply house.

Matthew Richter, Cultural Space Liaison, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture /

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In this walking tour, participants will explore the new streets, buildings, and public spaces transforming Yesler Terrace, a low-rise public housing project, into a diverse, thriving neighborhood. Yesler is a lesson in transformation—reintegrating with the Seattle grid, newly connected to the city's International District, and featuring new housing for low-income, moderate-income, and high-income residents. Tour participants will learn about the area's robust arts community, urban farming program, thriving community centers, and new streetcar corridor.

Tom Eanes, Senior Development Manager, Seattle Housing Authority /

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The demand for walkable, urban living is at an all time high yet nowhere does the supply meet the demand. Historic neighborhoods are bearing the brunt of increased density, threatening the very character that makes them successful. New Urbanists and preservationists share principles of human-scale walkability and local identity, making them natural allies for great future city-building. It is time the two joined forces to clearly demonstrate the “why, what and how” of protecting historic districts, building appropriate infill and replicating proven patterns of high quality, walkable urbanism. A high-powered panel explores the challenges, solutions and strategies of celebrating the old and extending characteristic new urbanism in New York City, Seattle and New Orleans.

Ann B. Daigle, Urban Regeneration - Design & Strategy , The CityBuilding Exchange / Lynn Ellsworth, President, Chair, Creative Strategy Group, Tribeca Trust / Pres Kabacoff, Executive Chairman of the Board , HRI, Inc, New Orleans / Mike Powe, Director of Research, Preservation Green Lab, National Trust for Historic Preservation / Steven W. Semes, Director, Notre Dame Graduate Studies for Historic Preservation and Author /

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Take your walkable street designs to the next level! We will explore specific ways to apply principles of artistic composition to elevate a technically competent walkable street into a truly great public space.

Kenneth Garcia, Town Planner, Dover, Kohl & Partners / Richard Hall, P.E., President, Hall Planning & Engineering Inc. /

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Laura Poncelet will make a pitch for how both "big architecture" and "missing middle housing" have their place or importance within the city and can be seen as tools within a larger toolkit for good urbanism. Then, Delma Palma explore how "missing middle housing" struggles to address market demands at the rate with which needs are increasing. And Ryan Kilpatrick will highlight one state program designed to dis-incentivize sprawl and support infill development using state resources.

Then, George Proakis, Howard Blackson, Judi Barrett, Dan Bartman, and John Anderson will discuss how New Urbanist codes create predictable, quality outcomes, but often fail to address equity and displacement. This discussion will examine inclusionary zoning and community benefit agreements and ask if they can be tools to reach more equitable outcomes.

John Anderson, Principal, Anderson|Kim Architecture + Urban Design / Judi Barrett, Director of Economic Development, Plymouth Regional Economic Development Foundation / Dan Bartman, Senior Planner, City of Somerville, MA / Howard Blackson, Urban Design & Community Planning Manager, RBF Consulting, a Company of Michael Baker International / Ryan Kilpatrick, City Planner, Economic Developer, Michigan Economic Development Corporation / Delma Palma, Architectural and Urban Designer, Torti Gallas and Partners / Laura Poncelet, Architect, Torti Gallas & Partners / George Proakis, AICP, Director of Planning, City of Somerville, MA /

Grab coffee, tea, and other refreshments in the Grand Lobby of the Benaroya or Lobby of the Seattle Art Museum.

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As we mark the 10-year anniversary of LEED for Neighborhood Development, we have made significant progress on walkable, sustainable communities. Yet, today’s headlines grapple with persistent and emerging issues of equity, access, and factors affecting basic quality of life and health. These challenges demand a reinvigorated search for solutions. Speakers will take foundational plenary concepts of resilience, equity, and identity down to ground level, reflecting on the value of LEED-ND and sharing emerging strategies and platforms for neighborhood sustainability. From an industrial and entertainment hub in Denver, to the community of the first African American owned bank west of the Mississippi, to a village in upstate New York; you’ll learn about concrete design, planning, development resources to move from an urgently desired vision to implementation. We will conclude with an interactive conversation and inspiring call to action.

Erin Christensen Ishizaki, Partner, Mithun / Donald King, FAIA, Principal Architect, Visiting Professor of Architecture, Mimar Studio, University of Washington / Jessica Millman, Director, Project Bookends / Maiko Winkler-Chin, Executive Director, Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority /

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In societies like the United States, top-down planning works because of administrative accountability and legal transparency. Regulation is an effective city planning instrument, and transforming urban policy to reverse sprawl has already shown significant results across North America. By contrast, many Central American countries are far more ambiguous in their administrative workings, and policy initiatives while relevant can only go so far. The notion of private developers as agents of urban change therefore becomes even more critical. As evident through this exchange, developers have become the torch-bearers of a better urban future in the wake of murky entitlement processes and weak public sector direction.

The New Urbanism has produced built work throughout Latin America. This session will discuss the successes and shortcomings of this decade-long trans-national exchange by bringing together some of its key players.

Vinayak Bharne, Director of Design, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists / Patrick Braga, Student, Cornell University / Jaime de Saint Malo, Co-Founder, Edifyca / Andrew Georgiadis, President, Georgiadis Urban Design / Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists / David Rodríguez, Architect, Rodriguez + Toledo /

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As we mark twenty-five consecutive annual congresses, CNU can celebrate a host of achievements, from detailed technical changes in many of the disciplines that contribute to our built environment, to having fundamentally changed the conversation about good development and redevelopment. But, when we look at the reality of our built environment and ask, “Are we there yet?” the answer is clearly, “Not yet.”

The principles of the New Urbanism establish a physical framework that is inherently flexible and accommodating of change. However, these principles will likely be put to severe tests over the next 25 years with the rapid and dramatic changes in economics, demographics and particularly technology. Will the principles still stand? What new barriers and challenges confront the quest for rational, inclusive, human-scale neighborhoods? Experts from a range of disciplines—some of which did not exist 25 years ago—will present a glimpse of the future.

4:20 PM

Joe Minicozzi / The Unexpectedly Fascinating Math of Urbanism / Joe Minicozzi has documented in city after city how conventional suburban development can be fiscally debilitating for local government’s bottom line, and how there is a crisis looming as a substantial amount of suburban infrastructure will come to the end of its life cycle over the next 25 years. In this presentation, Joe will discuss how local government fiscal reform can be leveraged to advance great urbanism by dialing back the subsidies for the post-WWII suburban experiment.

4:40 PM

Andres Duany & Paul Crabtree / Adaptation: The Next 100 Years/ Urban planning commits to the future more than other human endeavors. The present can become a distortion field. Between 2007 and 2017, the 21st century truly began, and we may now glimpse the difficulties that face us. We see climate change and also the possibility that we will fail to meet its challenges and exceed the tipping point. Is adaptation to climate change what follows upon the failure to mitigate the consequences? What is the unique role of New Urbanism in this future?

Todd Zimmerman, Principal, Zimmerman/Volk Associates, Inc. /

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The urban environment is increasingly influenced by digital mapping, simulations, the “internet of things,” and other new technologies. While these tools are valuable for understanding urban space, our increasing reliance on technology puts us at risk of losing sight of the value of personal observation of, and connection to, the cities we live in. This session, based on Chuck Wolfe’s new book, Seeing the Better City, will return attendees to the value of visual sense, immersion, and real-world observation as tools to create lasting positive changes in the urban environment. Attendees will hear a presentation about the value of “what they see,” using immersion, and real-world observation as tools to create lasting positive changes in the urban environment. Then, attendees will conduct a field exercise outdoors, using the book’s “urban diary” principles to observe the impacts of urban form, neighborhood dynamics, transportation, and other elements they witness in their daily lives.

Chuck Wolfe, Principal, Principal Advisor, Charles Wolfe Attorney at Law, Seeing Better Cities Group /

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Join us for drinks before the 2017 Charter Awards Ceremony in the Benaroya Recital Hall Lobby, 2nd Floor. Sponsored by Michael Baker International, LLC.

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In the spirit of amplifying the voices of women to make cities better for everyone. There will be happenings occurring each day that serve as opportunities to meet, think, collaborate, empower and support one another. The dates and times for the meetings, events and activities can be found at facebook.com/groups/CNUUrbanistas or on Twitter at #CNUUrbanistas.

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The CNU Charter Awards recognizes exemplary work in architectural, landscape, urban, and regional design, as defined by the Charter of the New Urbanism. Join this year's jury chair Stephanie Bothwell for an evening honoring this year's Charter Awards recipients.

The ceremony will also honor of the winner of the 2017 Groves Award, Barranco Award, and Driehaus Award. CNU will be honored with a special award for contributions to the public realm from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

To cap off the evening, a very special third class of CNU Fellows will be announced.

Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Stephanie Bothwell Urban & Landscape Design / Michael Lykoudis, Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame /

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The Debates are back! Loud music: check. Audience voting: check. Snarky panel: check. Oh, and beer. A hardcore mashup of Oxford Debating meets American Idol. Match-ups to be announced soon.

Brought to you by Strong Towns.

Charles Marohn, P.E., AICP, President, Strong Towns /

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Get your dancing shoes ready and celebrate CNU being awarded the Driehaus Prize special award! DJ PlaceMakahs will be spinning your favorite dance tunes. Join us at 1927 Events, 1927 3rd Ave.

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Pick up your badge, bag, and printed program at the Registration Desk in the Seattle Art Museum lobby.

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Discover for yourself why Vancouver, BC is internationally known as a livable, multimodal “city by design”. Join host Brent Toderian, former Vancouver chief planner and noted urbanist, along with a team of leading local planners and designers for this day-long excursion. Arrive in Vancouver Saturday morning by bus and begin with a walking tour of Vancouver’s renowned downtown, followed by lunch at a local eatery. Then choose between continuing the walking tour to explore the Downtown Eastside (including Woodward's Project) and the 2010 Olympic Village or Metro Vancouver's high-density transit-oriented development along the Skytrain, the world's longest automated rail system. Depart Vancouver after dinner to return to Seattle, or stay overnight and continue your own self-guided exploration.

Valid passport required.

Brent Toderian, MCIP, Founder, TODERIAN UrbanWORKS /

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Break free from your Saturday breakout session and explore the rest of the Pacific Northwest with our Portland, OR Immersion Day. Hop on a Portland-bound bus Saturday morning and spend the day exploring the city’s active neighborhoods, food truck scene, participating in locally-organized walking and biking tours, or setting off on your own with transit pass in hand. Registered participants may sign up for tours departing at 1 PM (Portland’s Bicycle Infrastructure, Pearl District and Northwest Alphabet District, Eastside Streetcar Neighborhoods, or Central City: The Pearl to Tilikum Crossing) and tours departing at 4 PM (Eastside Missing Middle Housing, Orenco Station: 20 Years of Evaluation, and Stemming the Tide of Gentrification: Claiming Place for Portland’s African American Community), or opt to venture off on their own for the afternoon.

Central City: The Pearl to Tilikum Crossing / Explore Portland, Oregon’s central city - from the Pearl District (One of PBS’s “Ten Towns that Changed America”), along the Portland Transit Mall (winner of multiple design awards), through the mixed use South Waterfront redevelopment area, and onto and over the new Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People (Portland’s famous major bridge without cars). Hear the background and stories directly from the transit agency involved in planning and developing these projects, lessons learned, and what’s next on the horizon for transit planning in Portland.

Pearl District and Northwest Alphabet District / Get an update on Portland's Pearl District, one of the earliest and most successful inner-city regeneration projects applying the principles of New Urbanism. Combining historic industrial fabric with cutting-edge green design ideas, the district has added 6,000 new residents to produce one of the liveliest and most popular walkable mixed-use districts in the country. We'll stop at the famous Powells bookstore, the EcoTrust adaptive reuse building (on which Jane Jacobs was an advisor) and Jamison Square. Then we'll head to the Northwest Alphabet District, a classic streetcar neighborhood with wonderful lessons about how to achieve livable density (approx. 22 units to the acre gross) with a diverse mix of building types and ages, including single-family detached, classic courtyard apartments, and condos. Both neighborhoods offer important lessons!

Eastside Streetcar Neighborhood / We will travel through a cross sections of four primary mixed-use main streets that once were the backbone of a 1920’s street car network branching across the Willamette River from downtown Portland. Starting at SE Division Street we will transport up to SE Hawthorne, SE Belmont, Burnside Blvd, and end on Sandy Boulevard. These streetcar neighborhood centers are seeing significant mixed-use infill development. Once lost to the rise of automobile transport, these main streets are once again vital to surrounding neighborhoods and vibrant as ever. This transect line will demonstrate a rich rhythm of neighborhood structure through the city.

Portland’s Bicycle Infrastructure / Explore Portland’s four “advisory bicycle lane” locations, as well as a breadth of the infrastructure that comprises Portland’s bikeway network on this 25-mile bike tour and consider the factors that have limited Portland’s ability to implement true advisory lanes – including higher than expected traffic volumes and a state law that does not explicitly allow people driving to go into bicycle lanes to avoid oncoming automotive traffic.

Eastside Missing Middle Housing / Explore Portland's classic east-side neighborhoods, featuring a wide range of "Missing Middle" housing types, including accessory dwelling units, duplexes, triplexes, quads, internal home divisions and courtyard plexes. These types were commonly intermixed with individual homes until the 1950s, when single-family zoning was broadly applied to Portland neighborhoods. Today, these compact, efficient housing types continue to provide a legacy of relatively affordable housing at a less obtrusive scale than many of the large new homes popping up. “Missing Middle” housing better matches current demographic trends towards smaller households - and provides the population density it takes to support walkable retail and transit in some of Portland’s most beloved close-in neighborhoods. We will discuss which of these middle housing types the City of Portland is currently considering re-legalizing in our residential neighborhoods. We’ll also brainstorm regulatory and strategic approaches other cities can take to (re)introduce Missing Middle housing types so neighborhoods can better serve residents of all ages and all incomes.

Orenco Station: 20 Years of Evaluation / Orenco Station was one of the first, and most closely watched, suburban transit-oriented developments in the nation. Among its many experiments have been suburban vertical mixed use, live works, accessory dwellings, affordable housing, and of course, multi-modal transportation. A number of research studies have been completed with important lessons for the future. Join former project manager Michael Mehaffy as he shares lessons learned on this regional laboratory for changing Portland's suburban growth patterns.

Stemming the Tide of Gentrification: Claiming Place for Portland’s African American Community / This talk and tour addresses cultural identity, displacement, and efforts by the African American community to solidify and maintain their community’s diversity and vibrancy amidst a rising tide of gentrification. A group of black business owners and leaders are proposing to create the SOUL District in North/Northeast Portland as a way to support black businesses and entrepreneurs, and provide a physical and economic hub for Portland’s African American community. While SOUL is still in its infancy, we will look at projects developed by African Americans and visit black-owned businesses including Vanport Square, greenHaus Gallery, Champions Barber School, Oregon Public House, and Alberta Main Street, a thriving arts and cultural district known for its locally-owned shops to see some of the potential for a visionary effort that may be years in the making. We will discuss the types of redevelopment that have led to rapid displacement of African Americans and other people of color in the area, and how to effect more inclusive revitalization moving forward.

Roger Geller / Robert Hastings, Agency Architect, TriMet / Michael Mehaffy, President, Senior Researcher, Structura Naturalis Inc., KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Laurence Qamar, Principal, Laurence Qamar Architecture & Town Planning Co. / Cole Reed / Eli Spevak, Developer and Principal, Orange Splot LLC / Jeana Woolley, Owner and Developer, JM Woolley & Associates / Ken Zatarain, Director of Service Delivery, TriMet /

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The increasingly cosmopolitan Canadian harbor city of Victoria, BC offers a rare juxtaposition of heritage, charm, scenic backdrops, outdoor amenities, and classic New Urbanism. After a beautiful passenger-only ferry ride across the Salish Sea, join walkability guru Dan Burden and local guests for an educational tour on the art of healthy city-making—exploring topics of density, sustainability, compact block form, local streets, alleys, street networks, biophilic design, and more. Participants should bring a passport, small backpack, water, snacks, and rain gear.

Dan Burden, Director of Innovation and Inspiration, Blue Zones / Todd Litman, Founder & Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute / Samantha Thomas, Built Environment Manager, Blue Zones /

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Start the final day of the Congress off right: coffee and light breakfast provided at the Seattle Art Museum.

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Providing an overview of New Urbanist trends and transportation issues in the Puget Sound, this tour follows a typical Seattle ferry trip from downtown to Winslow in Bainbridge Island. Along the way, participants will experience a unique perspective on the waterfront, the Sound, and the City's planned streetcar and cycling infrastructure expansions. Upon arrival at Bainbridge Island, participants will review recent residential and commercial developments in the downtown area that are helping to increase density and livability and cap the tour with a visit to the sustainable, affordable Grow Community.

Manuel Soto, Owner, Mobility & Walkability Consulting / Rick Williams, Partner, Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP /

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The session will probe, diagnose, and perhaps suggest remedy for the corrosive antagonism that has existed since the dawn of CNU between most schools of architecture and New Urbanism. Much of this conflict is superficial and stylistic; some is willful ignorance on both sides; some is deeply grounded in underlying theories of architecture and urbanism, and some in substantive differences in world view. Four veterans, scarred in the cross-fire, will discuss what they have learned in decades of combat.

Doug S. Kelbaugh, FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan / Alan Plattus, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Yale School of Architecture / Daniel Solomon, Principal, Mithun | Solomon / Marilyn Taylor, Professor of Architecture & Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania /

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What does it mean to be lean? Gerald Erion will sketch out his concepts for a lean ethics framework. Bruce Donnelly will talk about how "demonstration projects" and other provocations can excite people to take chances. Getting these projects right can lead to a process he calls "insurgent competence." Then, Nicole Rebeck will evaluate methodologies of tactical urbanism, identifying ten tools for measuring impacts. Dagmar Frinta will present the idea of a Guild for Boomers—an idea that calls for financially-secure baby boomer retirees to support younger artists/educators by attending/flourishing-in/financing guilds.

Stephen Coyle will discuss the schism between cities favoring big development juxtaposed to small development that can happen incrementally and present a lean way for smaller projects to gain favorable footing. Finally, Robert Orr will present his ideas for creating micro manufacturing centers as a way of bringing personal-scaled clean industry into the neighborhood as another piece of mixed-use—small, nonintrusive industry embedded within neighborhoods.

Stephen Coyle, AIA, LEEP-AP, Owner, Town-Green / Bruce F. Donnelly, Urban Planner, Office of Bruce F. Donnelly / Gerald Erion, Professor of Philosophy, Medaille College, Buffalo, NY / Robert Orr, FAIA, LEED, Principal, 2-term President, Robert Orr & Associates LLC, CNU New England / Nicole Rebeck, Landscape Designer, Design Workshop, Inc / Paddy Steinschneider, President & Founder, Gotham Design & Community Development Ltd. /

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Over the past 25 years, the New Urbanist movement has created and popularized many now-common practices, including mixed-use development, transit-oriented development, traditional neighborhood design, integrating design standards into affordable housing, and designing complete and beautiful streets. Together, we have fundamentally changed the conversation from debating alternative patterns of development to discussing how best to design, restore, and preserve our cities.

A new wave of urbanists and academics have made significant contributions to the study new urban practices. This session features the latest research contributions to the movement from the researchers themselves.

The following papers will be presented:

• Live Local: Achieving Equitable and Sustainable Neighborhood Development through Anchor-Led Housing Incentives
• Yardstreet
• Measuring the Scale, Density, and Directness of American Cities
• Walkability Lessons from the Past
• Addressing Climate Change through Design: A Land Systems Science Approach to Assessing Microclimate Regulation in New Urbanist Developments
• Improving Last-Mile Connections to Transit: An Exploration of Data and Analysis Tools
• The Future of Urban Transportation: A Roadmap for the 21st Century

Eric Dumbaugh, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University / Kristin Floberg, Transportation Planning Aide, Western Connecticut Council of Governments / Dawn Haynie, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University / Christopher McCahill, Senior Associate, State Smart Transportation Initiative / Shea O'Neill, Research Associate, U3 Advisors / Alena Shlyakhovaya /

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Explore how the historic King Street Station, built in 1906 as a transportation hub for the City of Seattle, has been reimagined by the City of Seattle and redesigned with a $50 million investment. This hardhat tour will take place right as ground is being broken on the Office of Arts & Culture’s renovations project, which centers around retrofitting the building's top floor to house an 8,500 square foot exhibition hall, a “Gray Box” performance and installation space, a 2,500 square-foot Living Room / meeting space for artists and cultural projects, as well as spaces for lectures, rehearsals, classes, studio art, and more.

Jerry Garcia, Principal, Olson Kundig Architects / Kirsten Murray, Owner, Olson Kundig Architects / Matthew Richter, Cultural Space Liaison, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture /

Urbanist youngsters and parents alike are invited to enjoy a pop-up playground outside of the Seattle Art Museum, designed by Parents for a Better Downtown Seattle.

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Grab coffee, tea, and other refreshments in the Lobby of the Seattle Art Museum.

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For over two decades CNU and its members have worked to build sustainable places and preserve the natural environment. From developing energy-efficient TOD and LEED for Neighborhood Development to adopting the Canons for Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism as a companion to the Charter, our projects, congresses and writings have helped pave the way for building greener, healthier, and more sustainable communities.

But the climate crisis is intensifying and we need to do more. It is critical that we continue to expand our knowledge base, share our expertise, collaborate with others in the field, and apply our skills to this immense, over-arching challenge. Come join our open conversation about how CNU and our members can best address the compounding impacts of climate change.

Doug S. Kelbaugh, FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan / Elizabeth Moule, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists / Anne Tate, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design /

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A critical yet overlooked and underdeveloped sector of the New Urbanism movement is communications: How the New Urban movement can successfully reach: the general public, the community within which development is proposed, the community that is considering changing land use policies, and other audiences that might otherwise be open to its message. The aim of this session is to analyze and discuss how to grow and advance New Urbanism's communications sector.

To highlight how it's been done elsewhere, Claire Flurin and Clement Bellec will present and demonstrate Vectuel, an award-winning European "urban tech" company that develops visual communication and collaboration tools for urban planning and real estate development. Victual's interactive 3D, scenario-based presentation and analysis platforms serve at all stages of urban developments as communication and marketing supports, but most importantly for engagement, collaboration, and participatory planning.

Clement Bellec, Vectuel / Bruce F. Donnelly, Urban Planner, Office of Bruce F. Donnelly / Chris Elisara, Producer, First+Main Media / Claire Flurin, Vectuel / Steve A. Mouzon, AIA, LEED, Principal, The New Urban Guild / Nathan Norris, Director of Education & Training, Congress for the New Urbanism / John Paget, Paget Films /

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A complete, self contained session, using OI rules, on major, recent renovations of signature public spaces of major cities, from charrette to implementation: the place that symbolizes the city, where people gather for when they are very happy, very angry, very proud or very scared. Join the leaders and designers from Cleveland Public Square, Toronto Nathan Philips Square, El Paso's El Jacinto Square, Philadelphia's Dilworth Park, and L.A.'s Pershing Square for an informative session on what it takes to remodel great civic spaces to meet the demands of the 21st Century.

Greg Burrell, Associate, The Olin Studio / Larry Gould, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard / Ying-yu Hung, Managing Principal, SWA Group / Paul Kulig, Urban Design + Transportation Leader, Perkins+Will / Eduardo Santana, Executive Director, Pershing Square Renew /

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This tour brings participants to the vibrant downtown core of Redmond, WA, a tech industry and startup hub, and one of two designated regional growth centers in the city. With a newly-approved light rail expansion and a population expected to grow by more than 5,000 by 2030, the city has planned and implemented projects aimed at creating community gathering places as well as making downtown easier to navigate by foot, bike, and transit. This walking tour will look at several projects including the Redmond Central Connector, the Cleveland Street redesign, and Downtown Park. Participants will have the option of having lunch in Redmond before returning to Seattle.

Jeff Churchill, Transportation Strategic Advisor, City of Redmond / Carolyn Hope, Park Planning and Cultural Arts Manager, City of Redmond / Gary Lee, Senior Planner, City of Redmond / John Marchione, Mayor, City of Redmond /

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Lunch on your own. Stroll through Pike Place Market or dine in nearby Pioneer Square.

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On January 25, 2017, the United Nation's General Assembly adopted the New Urban Agenda. The NUA is an action-oriented document which sets global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development and prompts a rethinking of the way we build, manage, and live in cities through drawing together cooperation with committed partners. This diverse panel of women will provide rich discourse on women's history and future as agents of change in shaping the way cities grow and in designing housing policies, economic opportunities, transportation systems, services, streets, parks and much more.

Because of the mid-day placement of this session, attendees are encouraged to bring lunch with them.

Laura Clemons, Founder & CEO, Collaborative Communities /

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Lean Urbanism is community-building that requires fewer resources, a response to the requirements, complexities and costs that disproportionately burden small-scale developers and entrepreneurs. The Project for Lean Urbanism is developing tools to allow more people to participate in the building of their homes, businesses, and communities. The tools focus on incremental, successional growth, reducing the resources required for compliance, and providing ways to work around onerous financial, bureaucratic, and regulatory processes.

Not everyone agrees on the best approach to Lean practices. After an update on the Project for Lean Urbanism, this session gets the Congress back to its roots: contributors and visionaries within the Lean Urbanism movement debate the merits of Lean tools and approaches. Don't miss it.

Hank Dittmar, Director, Dittmar Associates Limited / Andrés Duany, Principal, DPZ Partners / Brian Falk, Director of Publications, Center for Applied Transect Studies /

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Daniel Morales will address authenticity in architecture, exploring how humane architecture can return beauty as a guiding principle of great urbanism, both new and old, regardless of changing technologies. Phil Langdon will talk about encouraging local stakeholders to share their efforts to upgrade and improve the streetscape, shared spaces, and façades facing the public realm along neighborhood corridors as a way to create great gathering places. Then, Paul Whalen will present demonstrates how towers can be integrated into the traditional grid of low-rise buildings, adding density to historic cities around the world. At the other end of the scale, Pedro Quintanilla will show about how strip mall retail can be retrofitted incrementally to improve the quality of place.

To elevate the discussion further, Steve Mouzon, Eric Moser, Kenny Craft, and Nathan Norris will provide a critique of modern materials in new urbanist construction.

Kenneth Craft, Principal, Craft Design Studio, LLC / Philip Langdon, Author, Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All / Daniel Morales, Company Architect, Parkwood Homes / Eric Moser, Principal, Moser Design Group / Steve A. Mouzon, AIA, LEED, Principal, The New Urban Guild / Nathan Norris, Director of Education & Training, Congress for the New Urbanism / Peter Quintanilla, Senior Associate, Senior Urban Designer, PlaceWorks / Paul Whalen, AIA, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP /

Where should Lean Urbanism be applied? Towns and small cities? Major cities? Revitalizing neighborhoods? Industrial zones? Abandoned malls? Which places are the most fertile for Lean Urbanism? Which would benefit the most from Lean tools and techniques?

Stay after the Lean Urbanism debates to discuss and contribute.

Hank Dittmar, Director, Dittmar Associates Limited / Andrés Duany, Principal, DPZ Partners / Brian Falk, Director of Publications, Center for Applied Transect Studies /

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On sustainability, Rachel Carlson will be talking about smart siting for new urbanism and how it affects GHGs. On resilience, Samia Kirchner will suggest that coastal cities, like coral reefs, serve as refugees from tyranny and sanctuaries against danger, proposing T7 as an Urban Seascape Transect to guide waterfront development. David Savarese will talk about how design mitigation can add resilience to space, place, and community. Then, Mike Aziz will show cities can transform industrial waterfronts into MakerHoods, applying resilient waterfront design, not the traditional zoning approach.

To round out the session, Michael Murphy will explain “Open Space Equity”, and the importance of protecting land in both rural and urban. Laura Clemons will show how the average of a federal disaster declaration every week is costing us a loss of the critical housing stock that we identify as the "missing middle."

Mike Aziz, Urban Designer, Perkins+Will / Laura Clemons, Founder & CEO, Collaborative Communities / Doug Farr, CNU-A, President and Founding Principal, Farr Associates Architecture & Urban Design / Samia Kirchner, Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University / Michael Murphy, Land-use Planner, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks / David Savarese, Urban Planner, Jacobs Engineering Advance Planning Group /

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Please join fellow congress participants for one last drink to cap off CNU 25.Seattle! Meet us at the Queen Anne Beer Hall.

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