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As Chattanooga develops its Parks and Outdoors Plan, a national expert in parks will add his voice to the dialogue. Mitchell Silver - a former commissioner for the New York City Parks Department - will be the next speaker at CIVIQ, the lecture series from Chattanooga Design Studio.

To reinvent Chattanooga as a city in a park, it takes a plan. The Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Plan is a work in progress - and on Thursday starting at 5 PM, a public workshop on developing the plan will be held at Avondale Community Center.

Visit Sculpture Fields at Montague Park in Chattanooga - and you’ll see a 40-foot tall structure made of wood. Designed and constructed by a local artist, it is the centerpiece of this weekend’s “Fire Up the Fields Sculpture Burn” - a free event for the community on Saturday, starting at 5 PM.

Kai Harris is a writer and educator whose debut novel is titled “What the Fireflies Knew.” On Saturday at 3 PM, Kai will visit the Arts Building here in Chattanooga to talk about her novel at SoLit, in partnership with The Book & Cover bookstore.

Hip-hop was born in the city - a cultural product of its socioeconomic time. Now, what first took shape as a music genre a half-century ago, and what it has inspired since, has something to say about cities today - and what cities can be. Bruzenskey Bois will talk about "Hip Hop Is New Urbanism" for the premiere of this fall's CIVIQ series here in Chattanooga, presented by Chattanooga Design Studio.

For fashionistas, the runway is calling this fall. The Chattanooga Fashion Expo returns the week before Thanksgiving - from Thursday, November 17th through Sunday, November 20th - with events at various locations around the city. One event is aimed at students and emerging designers.

Richard Winham shares a session from Sunshine Nights, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.

“Something Rotten!” is a musical comedy set in the London theater world during the age of William Shakespeare. Next week, it comes to Artistic Civic Theatre in Dalton - premiering on Friday, July 29th. Kate Losh is the director.

CNE’s Martina Guilfoil on the affordable housing crisis. green|spaces hosts a regenerative design summit. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

How should we design and construct the sustainable buildings of tomorrow? You’ll find the shape of things to come next week at the Regenerative Design Summit here in Chattanooga.