Designing Cities 2025: Washington D.C.
May 28 - 31, 2025
Washington, DC
About the Designing Cities Conference
The annual NACTO Designing Cities Conference brings together over 1,000 people passionate about advancing the state of transportation in North American cities—engineers, planners, government agency leaders, elected officials, advocates, and other transportation professionals of all career levels.
In 2025, we will be hosted by our member District DOT. We look forward to bringing the NACTO movement together in Washington, D.C. from May 28 to May 31 for another great event!
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Why We Gather
The NACTO Designing Cities Conference equips thousands of city staff with the resources, information, and relationships to build safe, sustainable, equitable, accessible streets. Just as importantly, the conference is a place where our community comes together. Every year, we catch up with peers and colleagues, make new connections, and feel the buzz of entering a room of over 1,000 people committed to a shared mission. We celebrate our successes and support each other in the face of adversity or tragedy. We recommit to doing the difficult work of addressing the intertwined safety, equity, and climate crises facing our cities.
Our movement is motivated by the belief in the potential for transformative change through urban design and transportation policy. This belief emerges from the conviction that transforming streets is not only possible, but necessary to address climate change and structural inequities. This radical optimism and belief in our collective ability to make change fuels our work and drives all that NACTO does. The Designing Cities Conference is our primary vehicle for building and sustaining the community that makes this movement possible.