Here’s the information from the Asheville Downtown Association:
The Asheville Downtown Association and Samsel Architects invites you to join us for “Strong Towns Curbside Chat,” a special presentation by planning expert, Chuck Marohn. This candid talk about the future of America’s cities, towns and neighborhoods will take place Thursday, September 19 from 6-8pm at The Orange Peel.
The Curbside Chat is a presentation, followed by a community-specific discussion, about the financial health of our places.
• Why are our cities and towns so short of resources despite decades of robust growth?
• Why do we struggle at the local level just to maintain our basic infrastructure?
• What do we do now that the economy has changed so dramatically?The answers lie in the way we have developed; the financial productivity of our places. This stunning presentation is a game-changer for communities looking to grow more resilient and obtain true prosperity during changing times.
What’s the big idea?
Three “big ideas” are central to Strong Towns thinking, and we explore them within the Curbside Chat program:
• The current path cities are pursuing is not financially stable.
• The future for most cities will not resemble the recent past.
• The main determinant of future prosperity for cities will be local leaders’ ability to transform their communities.Who is the Curbside Chat for?
The Curbside Chat program has been developed specifically for public officials and change-advocates at the local level.
ABOUT STRONG TOWNS AND CHUCK MAROHN (www.strongtowns.org)
Chuck is the co-founder and president of Strong Towns, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that helps America’s towns achieve financial strength and resiliency.
Strong Towns travels the nation and the digisphere to promote a complete understanding of the costs that are associated with our communities’ methods of growth, and we advocate to address those costs via productive changes in our pattern of development.
Chuck is a Professional Engineer (PE) licensed in the State of Minnesota and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute.
He is the author of Thoughts on Building Strong Towns (Volume 1), the primary author of the Strong Towns Blog and the host of the Strong Towns Podcast and See it Differently TV.
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