Hear how some of Washington, D.C.'s most well-known and powerful figures worked to improve community and police relations in the late 1960s through The Pilot District Project.
Tour Washington, D.C.'s first supportive housing for formerly homeless veterans. The Ker Conway Residence is a fourteen-story, 124 unit project that offers housing for a variety of incomes with supportive services.
Teens can explore a new housing solution for veterans in D.C. with an offsite tour of the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence and a conversation with residents living there.
Talk: World Heritage Cities as Cultural Landscapes
Learn about urban cultural landscapes and World Heritage through the example of the 2012 World Heritage City designation of Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea.
National Building Museum Members are invited to view Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project before it opens to the public.
Talk: Designing Safe Streets: Vision Zero in Washington, D.C.
Vision Zero aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by designing and operating a safe system, supported by strategic enforcement, education, and evaluation.
Secret Cities examines the innovative design and construction of the Manhattan Project, a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
Ride with Susan Piedmont-Palladino, curator, as she leads a bike tour of the RFK stadium campus, highlighting current use, planned development, and ideas to improve the Anacostia watershed.
Join us in celebrating our teen designers from the Design Apprenticeship Program as they present design solutions for the Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library.