SAT-B02 - Small but Mighty: Engaging Small Communities to Realize Big Visions

Saturday, November 20, 2021

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 202

Compliments of:

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Scott A. Jordan, ASLA

Principal
Civitas Inc
Denver, Colorado

Speaker(s)

Erin Lonoff, AICP

Principal
HR&A Advisors
New York, New York
Susannah Ross, ASLA

Senior Landscape Architect
Agency Landscape + Planning
Cambridge, Massachusetts

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

With the current pandemic, jobs are increasingly mobile making small cities more desirable. Forward-thinking communities that expanded their public realm were better equipped to attract new residents and mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. This session will explore strategies for inclusive engagement, conceptualizing, and implementing bold designs in smaller cities.

Learning Outcomes:

Explore inclusive engagement techniques catered to small town politics and places where “everyone knows everyone” and change is in everyone’s “backyard.”
Introduce funding and implementation strategies that enable municipalities with less annual income to realize bold design without limiting quality or content.
Discuss design, presentation, and communication techniques that are well suited to small communities where developing personal relationships is critical to building trust and acceptance.
Understand how smaller communities are using previously implemented or planned open spaces to mitigate the pandemic and lessen the impact on their businesses and communities.