This Saturday (May 17), join me at Clucking Blossom for a discussion on the future of neighborhoods and city planning amid rising gasoline prices.
Clucking Blossom is an annual festival of music, art, and ideas. It is absolutely free of charge — in fact, no cash is allowed to change hands on the day of the event. It will have over 50 bands playing, activities for children, art projects, a community picnic, workshops, and more. This year’s Clucking Blossom will be at the Birch Hill Recreation Area this Saturday from 10 a.m. to midnight.
Here’s the description I’ve submitted for my program:
Fairbanks After $10-per-Gallon Gasoline: The future of neighborhoods and community planning.
Paul Adasiak, author of the blog The Fairbanks Pedestrian, will talk about neighborhoods, downtowns, and city planning. What benefits are there to living in neighborhoods? How does current land use make us isolated and car-dependent, and how might we use land differently to help equality, encourage community, and save money? How can we keep access to untouched wilderness as our population grows?
I’ll be leading the discussion at 1:00 in a venue called “The CluckHaus” — I don’t know just where that is.
Please join me — or if you can’t make it to my discussion, come later in the day! Naturally, feel free to bike, jog, or carpool there.
Wish I had been there! I wanted to make it up for Clucking Blossom badly, but alas, I do indeed practice car-free living and the ride didn’t work out…
By the way, I think Girdwood is a great place for car-free living.
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