Join the Conversation

If you have an idea for engaging your community or group in this dialogue, please use our submission form to submit your ideas. We’ll review and post them to this blog.

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Welcome to the next phase of the Smart Growth Network’s National Conversation on the Future of Our Communities! This new blog is devoted to continuing the conversation started with a call for papers early this summer. We hope to engage even more voices and create an ongoing, real-time discussion of “what’s next” for our communities: how do we want to grow, what issues should we be considering now to prepare for the future? These are big questions, and we hope that you all will contribute, either through comments or your own post.
This blog will highlight multiple voices, including community members, business owners, non-profits, for-profits, local, regional, and federal government, the private sector, and academics, to name just a few.
Each Tuesday, we will feature a new topic and summarize a group of posts we have received. We hope to use the summary post as a way to pose questions for readers to discuss through the comments section, allowing us all to dig deeper into each topic.
To submit your own blog post (including written content, videos, PowerPoints, plans, or pictures), please visit http://www.smartgrowth.org/nationalconversation/. We look forward to your submissions!
Okay, enough background. Let’s get this conversation started!