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The Next City: A Workshop

On Tuesday, May 5, at 1pm EST, Solidarity Hall and Strong Towns will present a live 90-minute Zoom video session, titled "The Next City," during which Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn will…
Russell Arben Fox
May 3, 2020

On Tuesday, May 5, at 1pm EST, Solidarity Hall and Strong Towns will present a live 90-minute Zoom video session, titled “The Next City,” during which Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn will present a possible vision of what is coming for our cities and towns, and what our urban landscape will look like in the near future, with responses from Russell Arben Fox and others. This is a good time to consider such matters, as most of us currently see all around us the relative emptiness of our downtowns and suburban streets, with large urban areas suddenly transformed into public spaces with no public in sight. Both pollution and commerce has diminished greatly everywhere and in this moment of ambivalence, we are free—at least temporarily—to radically reimagine our built environment. For more information on the event, see here; some good background reading as preparation would include Marohn’s “This is the End of the Suburban Experiment,” and Fox’s “Cities, Common Spaces, and the Corovavirus,” here on FPR. Hope to see you virtually on Tuesday!

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Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox is a Front Porch Republic Contributing Editor. He grew up milking cows and baling hay in Spokane Valley, WA, but now lives in Wichita, KS, where he runs the History & Politics and the Honors programs at Friends University, a small Christian liberal arts college. He aspires to write a book about the theory and practice of democracy, community, and environmental sustainability in small to mid-sized cities, like the one he has made his and his family’s home; his scribblings pertaining to that and related subjects are collected at the Substack “Wichita and the Mittelpolitan.” He also blogs–irregularly and usually at too-great a length–more broadly about politics, philosophy, religion, socialism, bicycling, books, farming, pop music, and whatever else strikes his fancy, at “In Medias Res.”

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