Lauren Mayer

Lauren Mayer is the Associate Director of Resources at the Congress for the New Urbanism where she helps to produce and maintain the New Urbanist knowledge base.

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Reconnecting Communities with federal financing

CNU’s biennial Freeways Without Futures report is out now! In a series of articles, Public Square is exploring common threads from the report. Article two focuses on Reconnecting Communities financing.
LAUREN MAYERAPR. 13, 2023
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The college campus to New Urbanist pipeline

American college campuses play a major role in young people coming to understand the importance of walkability and bikeability in their communities. For many, living on a college campus is the first time they truly live somewhere with adequate and...
LAUREN MAYERFEB. 1, 2021
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Stretching the imagination of a community’s highway-to-boulevard dreams

IMAGINE: The Future Grand Rapids vision replaces US-131 in the Michigan city with a green, low speed boulevard and reconnected street grid.
LAUREN MAYERAPR. 30, 2025