THE CUMBERLAND REGION TOMORROW
QUALITY GROWTH TOOLBOX Project

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 5:30 – 7:30p.m.
At the Nashville Civic Design Center
138 Second Avenue North, Suite 106

Last month, before a well-attended and enthusiastic audience at Vanderbilt University, Cumberland Region Tomorrow (CRT) rolled out its Quality Growth Toolbox, a publication resource that will assist communities throughout its 10 county region-- and beyond-- to produce future quality growth that will be participatory, multi-disciplinary, and holistic in its thinking.

This Urban Design Forum, which will be led by Dr. Bridget Jones, Executive Director of Cumberland Region Tomorrow, will provide an opportunity for Urban Design Forum members to learn about and comment on the Toolbox and its application. Ed Cole of TDOT, Rick Bernhardt of Metro Planning, and Fleming Smith Jr. of Looney Ricks Kiss will also share their insights as leaders and creators of the Toolbox document. In addition, Dr. Jones and panel members will describe several exciting new partnership projects that will assist our region’s communities with comprehensive planning, community design, and other facets of quality growth implementation through the new CRT Quality Growth Institute.

The Civic Design Center has agreed to partner with the CRT Quality Growth Institute to be a training center, to offer technical assistance, and to be a facilitator of public participation in community assessment, visioning, and design workshops.