Exhibitions
TACTICAL URBANISM: 15TH ANNUAL LUNCHEON
Nashville Music City Center / 201 5th Avenue S November 8, 2018 - November 8, 2018
The Nashville Civic Design Center’s mission is to elevate the quality of Nashville’s built environment and promote public participation in the creation of a more beautiful and functional city for all. Our work touches all aspects of the built environment: sustainable neighborhood development; a multimodal transportation system; a safe, efficient and pleasant pedestrian environment; healthy food access; diverse and affordable housing options; public parks and open space.
The Annual Luncheon serves as our annual fundraiser where a world renowned speaked comes to talk about an important topic in urban design. This year's speaker is Mike Lydon.
Mike Lydon is a Principal with Street Plans and leads the firm’s New York City office. Mike is an internationally recognized planner, writer, speaker, and advocate for livable cities. NPR, The New York Times, CNN Headline News, ABC News, City Lab, Planetizen, Salon, Next City, Architect Magazine, and Streetsblog have featured his work, among other publications.
Mike is the creator of the The Open Streets Project and the globally acclaimed Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action, Long-Term Change Vol. 1 – 4. With Tony Garcia, Mike is the recipient of the 2017 Seaside Prize and co-author of Tactical Urbanism (Island Press, 2015), named by Planetizen as one of the top ten planning books of the year. Mike collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing The Smart Growth Manual (McGraw-Hill, 2009).
A founding member of the New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a Board Member for CNU New York, and a steering committee member of the Next Generation of New Urbanists, he remains active in both local and national planning, design, and smart growth advocacy issues. Before launching the firm in 2009, Mike worked for Smart Growth Vermont, the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, and Ann Arbor’s GetDowntown Program. From 2006 – 2009 Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ), an international leader in the practice of smart growth planning, design, and research techniques
