CNU NE Annual Summit and Awards: The New Localism

On Friday, October 2 The New Localism Summit & Awards will provide hands-on guidance for addressing a critical challenge and transformative opportunity facing communities across New England and the nation. Inspired by Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak's 2007 book The New Localism, our focus for the day will be the profound shift in power and problem solving capacity that is moving away from the national government and toward local communities and metropolitan networks of public, private, and civic actors.

Across the board, we are seeing that local governments must fill a widening fiscal gap, and with funding responsibility comes planning power and planning accountability. How can local communities—large and small, well-resourced and under-resourced, red and blue—respond? This year's Summit is designed to help answer that question through a day-long program consisting of a keynote, breakout discussions, panel discussion, and awards, concluding with a cocktail reception.

Apply for Urbanism Awards here! Submissions are due by Thursday September 17.

Saturday October 3 is Urban De-Code Boston! Join the Emerging New Urbanists (ENU) and spend the day exploring the forces shaping Boston’s urban environment. We’ll kick off with a morning transect walk commencing at Faneuil Hall and ending in the Seaport, unpacking how changes in density, land use, transportation, public space, and neighborhood character reveal the city’s evolution. From there, we’ll dive deeper through a workshop on a transportation corridor and a neighborhood currently undergoing redesign. We’ll end the day with an informal happy hour and dinner.

Register here for one or both days. Head over to ENU's sister Eventbrite page for more information about day 2 and some frequently asked questions.