For cities, urban design at its best is meant to put people first - and center them with a sense of place.
However, sometimes the neat lines of a design - on the page or in the mind’s eye - stand in the way, because those lines miss how people and places live in practice.
Chandra Christmas-Rouse is an urban planner, advocate and artist in Chicago - where she is a senior manager at the Metropolitan Planning Council.
This week, she visits Chattanooga - as the next speaker for CIVIQ, presented by Chattanooga Design Studio, on Thursday starting at 5:30 PM at The Camp House.
The title of her talk, “Designing Disruption: What If We Did Fix It?”
I spoke with Chandra - and Eric Myers, the Studio’s executive director.
Chattanooga Design Studio
