Ellen Dunham-Jones, the Director of the Urban Design Program at Georgia Tech, will discuss how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places.
On April 3, the Building Our City Speaker Series will welcome Hunter Franks, the Founder and Artistic Director of the League of Creative Interventionists. The event is free and open to the public.
Have you ever experienced the gritty charm of downtown Asheville’s largely undiscovered Carolina Lane? Perhaps you are more familiar with its more famous cousin, Chicken Alley? On May 5, these alleyways and nearby streets will host a Creative Intervention - that is, a one-day event that prototypes design interventions and art-based solutions that shift how the public interacts with urban spaces.
Asheville is a community on the rise. The design of our community impacts how we interact with the space around us and with each other, and influences how we live. Join us for this five-part speaker series featuring national experts on urban design, planning, placemaking, transportation and other community development topics to explore the role of thoughtful design in building livable communities.
Join us for this free Building Our City speaker series event featuring renowned planner and urbanist, Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver who has lead the New York City Parks Department since 2014. Silver will focus on the impact of planning and placemaking on physical and mental wellbeing. He will also share learnings from a variety of projects during his role in New York, such as the Community Parks Equity Initiative, Parks without Borders, and Cool Pools and Creative Courts.
