Don’t miss your opportunity to select which of these excellent candidates should help shape the future of the organization and the New Urbanist movement!

But yes, it’s an area of design and policy innovation (and advocacy) that I would encourage more New Urbanists to work toward, and shout from the rooftops about!

Atlanta’s Mayor Dinkins is prioritizing raising children as a policy priority, and it reinforces the City’s planning strategy of investing in complete neighborhoods. And there are folks studying the issue (for example: www.brookings.edu/articles/und...).

I agree, it’s fundamental. While important for implementation, focusing solely on the right housing product misses the bigger picture: families need neighborhoods, and the complete list of daily needs, services (schools!) that support children’s needs as well as adults.

This is an important point, one that I know CNU has had sessions about before but is ripe in the 2025 host city - Providence. The city has focused on adaptive reuse of historic (former office/commercial) buildings into micro units there, but are families being encouraged/accommodated too?