Baton Rouge-based DIG Magazine’s latest cover story, Up or Out: Grow Forth and Prosper, focuses on the 2011 Smart Growth Summit and varying perspectives on what Smart Growth could mean for the Capital City. The article features summit speakers such as the Redevelopment Authority’s Mark Goodson, former Mayor of Pittsburgh Tom Murphy and Chris Leinberger of the Brookings Institution, as well as insight from Jeff Carney, an urban designer and professor at the LSU School of Landscape Architecture. The story touches on the complex but necessary task of bridging the ideals of Smart Growth to tangible market forces, a key topic at this year’s summit.
Give it a read – it is a great preview of what will come later this week!
