Charles Marohn, Strong Towns President, will be giving several presentations in the Champaign area on October 11, 2022.
These event are hosted by Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, Department for Urban and Regional Planning at UIUC, UIUC Student Sustainability Committee, City of Urbana, and the City of Champaign.
LOCATION: Illinois Terminal City View Room, 4th Floor
DATE: October 11, 2022 | TIME: 10:00 am CST
Charles Marohn, Strong Towns President will be giving a presentation titled Going from Strong Towns Ideas to Implementation where he will help attendees learn Strong Towns principles and how to bring them to fruition in your area. This session is targeted for city staff, elected officials, and community advocates. All others are welcome, especially UIUC students and faculty with conflicts with the afternoon presentation.
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LOCATION: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Temple Buell Hall / Room 227
DATE: October 11, 2022 | TIME: 2:00pm CST
Strong Towns: Principles and Best Practices for Building Robust, Resilient Communities
In this presentation, Charles Marohn will draw upon his two books—Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity and Confessions of a Recovering Engineer—to illustrate the Strong Towns approach to community (re)development. Marohn will challenge the prevailing American approach to development, highlighting how diverse subfields of planning and engineering—from transportation and infrastructure, to housing, zoning, and urban design—have contributed to unsustainable growth patterns and how they can do better. From these foundations, Marohn will outline a set of principles and best practices that can put communities on the path toward greater prosperity, resilience, sustainability, and quality of life.
This Wetmore Lecture event is hosted by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign THB / Room 227. 2:00-3:15 pm Reception to follow presentation.
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LOCATION: Illinois Terminal City View Room, 4th Floor
DATE: October 11, 2022 | TIME: 5:30pm CST
Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Approach to Rebuild American Prosperity In this presentation, Marohn will explain why our cities are on the cusp of a long, slow decline, and how to approach the necessary triage in a rational way. He’ll share why old and blighted areas are often more financially productive than shiny new ones and how humble public engagement can create amazing insights. This is an overview presentation of the Strong Towns approach to community health and financial resilience. It will look at planning and engineering, and policies and finances that work towards or against a healthy community.
