Seminar set for 6 p.m. Thursday
Neal Barker, owner of Town and Country Cleaner, has invited Charles Marohn, the founder and president of Strong Towns, to speak at a Thursday seminar at The Venue at 219 on the trajectory of Sulphur Springs and how to make it more resilient.
According to the Strong Towns website, Marohn is a professional engineers and land use planner with much experience, and he also has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from the the University of Minnesota.
He is known as the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity and and Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. He regularly presents Strong Towns concepts across America.
The Strong Towns movement poses the question of “Can cities sustain their growing infrastructure?”, saying cities have “given little thought to whether future generations can afford to maintain the world we’re passing on to them.”
The Strong Towns movement believes cities much “stop valuing efficiency and start valuing resilience” among other concepts.
Robert Steuteville, editor-in-chief at the Congress for New Urbanism’s Public Square, said the “Strong Towns worldview is fairly closely aligned with New Urbanism,” which focuses on city’s walkability and accessible public spaces. However, Steuteville adds “Marohn has founded a movement that is very much its own thing.”
The event invites all interested parties to come to the seminar. It will be held 6 p.m. Thursday at The Venue at 219 on Main Street.