Dear Friend,

Join us for two great learning opportunities coming up next week. Learn more about the role of arts and culture in cities; and how smarter, data-driven metropolitan planning can lead to healthier residents and stronger economies.

On Wednesday September 21st at 4 p.m. EDT, join us for the second webinar in our series further exploring the role of arts and culture in transportation planning and community development.

Minneapolis, Seattle, Saint Paul, Boston, Los Angeles, and other cities across the US run artist-in-residence programs, embedding local artists inside city departments to promote creative thinking, attract attention to mundane but crucial municipal processes, and shift narratives about city residents and workers.  We’ll be discussing two of these programs in detail.

Find out more about that opportunity here. 

Planning for healthier, safer, more prosperous metro regions

A day later on Thursday, September 22nd at 1p.m., join us for stories of how a handful of metro areas have found smart, data-driven ways to better conceive, select and build the transportation projects that can improve public health outcomes for all of their residents, strengthen the local economy, promote social equity and better protect the environment.

Metro leaders and officials are wondering: can the people in neighborhoods more likely to be unhealthy easily get out for a walk or bike ride without having to traverse dangerous streets? Do regional planners effectively consider the impacts on regional air quality as they choose which projects to build? Is the area putting forward the most competitive possible walking and biking projects to win limited state or federal funding?

We’re excited to bring you the stories of a handful of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) that have good answers to all of these questions next week via a new series of short case studies and an accompanying webinar on Thursday, September 22 at 1 p.m. EDT.

Register for the webinar and you’ll be the first to receive a copy of these new case studies on Thursday.

On the webinar, we’ll have a short conversation with staff from four MPOs featured in the case studies. They’ll share details on their policies and programs, the transportation projects that resulted and the partnerships they had to forge to taste that success.

Join our team and experts on September 22nd at 1pm EDT. Register today!