Strong America Book Tour
November 19, 2019
Strong Towns Returns to Shreveport
The first event hosted by ReForm Shreveport featured Strong Towns, an organization specializes in teaching cities how to pursue development practices and land use choices that are financially sustainable. And now, we are hosting them again!
Chuck recently wrote a book titled Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, and we are on his list of preferred destinations! We hope you will join us and stay tuned for more news today!
What took Place
ReForm Shreveport hosted Building a Stronger Shreveport part of Strong Towns’ Strong America Book tour at 7:00PM on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. The event featured a keynote presentation by author Charles L. Marohn, Jr., the founder and president of Strong Towns. Highlights from some of the most powerful stories in Mr. Marohn’s recently published book Strong Towns, A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity were featured during the keynote speech. This innovative and hands-on presentation showcased why so many towns in North America are struggling financially despite decades of growth. In addition to stories featured in the book, there was also a focused discussion about how Strong Towns’ concepts have been applied to Shreveport’s core community and exploration on what next steps we can take to build on that success.
This event, held at Artspace (708 Texas Street, Shreveport, LA), was a follow up to Mr. Marohn’s first visit to Shreveport in 2016 for ReForm Shreveport’s inaugural keynote event. Since that time, ReForm Shreveport has been working to implement and advocate for Strong Towns principles through organizing local improvement projects and cleanups, ‘proof of concept’ demonstrations, setting a standard for city outreach with citizens, and creation of interactive events with local residents.
