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Chicago Community Planning Academy: a new way to democratize the built environment
November 25, 2024

  CNT is excited to announce a new partnership with the Chicago Architecture Center to develop the Chicago Community Planning Academy. The Chicago Community Planning Academy creates a thriving community of empowered participants who actively engage in formal planning and design processes to advocate for and create more equitable, healthy, and vibrant neighborhoods through continuous, equity-centered education and networking. Applications are now open – we and our... Continue reading »

 

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Equity in Practice: Strengthening Transit through Community Partnerships

by TransitCenter and CNT
February 29, 2024

TransitCenter, CNT, and six LA-based community organizations worked with LA Metro to implement part of the agency’s strategy for working with CBOs. In our new report, Equity in Practice: Strengthening Transit through Community Partnerships, we reflect on what other agency practitioners can learn about community partnerships from LA Metro. CNT and TransitCenter offered our research expertise and team capacity to the Office of Equity and Race , to aid their implementation of the CBO Partnering Strategy. Our cross-organizational team developed two recommendations from the strategy: a database connecting CBO and LA Metro staff to information about each other and partnership opportunities and a charter process to guide LA Metro-CBO partnerships. This report describes how we developed those two recommendations. In doing so, it demonstrates the process and form that community-driven agency programs can take and illuminates lessons about CBO-agency relationships.

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Evanston cautiously embraces transit-oriented development to achieve climate goals

Daily Northwestern | September 27, 2024

A train at an Evanston station

Evanston might seem like a stereotypical college town — replete with bookstores, coffee shops, trendy restaurants and an abundance of apartments close to Northwestern. Looking closely, however, Evanston has two relatively unique assets: widespread access to consistent public transit and local amenities within walking distance.

That’s a result of transit-oriented development, which maximizes the amount of housing and commercial space adjacent to public transit stations. It’s gaining traction among city planners across the country as cities like San Francisco and Boston aim to meet climate goals.

 

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