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Webinar: 3 Quick Steps to Building a Third Place Through Tactical Urbanism

Join us virtually for this stop on the Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2024, featuring Strong Towns Chief of Staff Carlee Alm-LaBar and guest speakers Azael Alvarez and Jonathan Zoccoli, from the Better Block Foundation.

LOCATION: Online Event   |   DATE: October 31, 2024  |   TIME: Noon CDT

How many of us would love to stroll to an inviting public plaza in the evenings or meet up with friends at a nearby beer garden? How many of our neighborhoods actually have these sorts of places in abundance? Building third places — social spaces that foster community interaction and productive engagement — doesn't need to be expensive or take years to enact. Better Block is a world-renowned placemaking organization that's been successfully quick-building third places and safer streets across the continent for years. In this session, Better Block’s Jonathan Zoccoli and Azael Alvarez — a landscape designer and project manager, respectively — will join Carlee Alm-LaBar of Strong Towns to teach practical strategies for creating third places and getting the community buy-in needed to do so. This session promises to be a treasure trove of knowledge for anyone interested in building more productive places where everyone feels welcome.