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For 40 years, Mike Dougher has shaped Chattanooga’s music scene, booking future stars and building venues that made the city a live music destination.

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.

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.

Almost time to clear the way for the return of Park(ing) Day in downtown Chattanooga. Next Friday, parking spaces will be reclaimed, reimagined and repurposed as “parklets” for people on Broad Street between 4th Street and Aquarium Way.

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.

Jessie Knowles describes her solo show as an “artistic outreach” to raise awareness of mental health. An interdisciplinary artist here in Chattanooga, Jessie lives with what she calls her “mental differences” - and she tells her story in her own words in “Jessie’s Messy Mind Show,” which premieres Friday night at The Seed Theatre.

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.

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.

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.

A recent article in Forbes Magazine described Chattanooga as an “under-the-radar culinary gem.” Zest is a cooking app startup now based here that aims to reach and teach people who would like to cook. Jake Gutstein is co-founder of Zest, backed by Brickyard.