Administrators Section Intensive: Shaping More Livable Communities

Session Description: Among the more complex and compelling questions all forms of government are grappling with today is how they can shape more livable and loveable places. For thousands of years, humans built cities for people who walked. The scale of development, spacing of destinations, and distance individuals would routinely travel were scaled for a society that commuted by foot. We now build places around the automobile and label these investments as progress. We like to think about these decisions as ways to improve people’s lives and make things better.  But what has resulted is a society that has increasingly become less healthy, less connected, and where costly car-centric infrastructure has compromised opportunities for investment in services that matter to the collective quality of life - like public parks and open spaces. Systems that are willing to acknowledge where they’ve been, where they are today, and can work collectively in intentional and intelligent ways to create a course focused on improving people’s lives have a chance to shape more livable and loveable communities.

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