Strong Towns: The Profit, and Losses, of Growth

Tuesday January 30, 2018 • 6-7:30PM • Kansas City Public Library • Free

6-7:30PM

This event is free and open to the public.

Join your colleagues at the first in 3 of the Making a Great City Series.  

Most urban development over the past 70 years has failed to create enough revenue to fund its infrastructure – streets and utilities that now are deteriorating. Yet we keep building more, increasing liabilities rather than adding to our cities’ value.

The question is how to change the course. Chuck Marohn, a civil engineer, land use planner, and founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, examines what he says is a need to build cities and suburbs differently, establishing a land use and transportation pattern that produces enough long-term revenue to build resilient, self-sustaining – i.e. “strong” – towns and cities.

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