The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City Celebrating Five Years-Opening Reception October 22, 2009

The Opening will convene in the Library Conference Room with brief remarks from Nashville Civic Design Center Design Director Gary Gaston and will also feature author Christine Kreyling, as well as other individuals who were pivotal in creating the Plan of Nashville.
The exhibit chronicles the creation of The Plan of Nashville, a community-based, fifty-year vision of how the urban core of Nashville should look and work in the future. The Plan, completed in 2004, was conceived and orchestrated by the Nashville Civic Design Center (NCDC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to elevate the quality of Nashville's built environment and to promote public participation in the creation of a more beautiful and functional city for all.
The visioning process that created The Plan involved more than 800 people in 50 community meetings that took place over two and a half years. The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City book was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2005, and written by Christine Kreyling.
The exhibit features more than 250 original drawings, chronicling Nashville’s historic development, the process that created the plan, the plan’s vision for the future, and projects of the past five years since the Plan’s release that are implementing The Plan. This is the first time these drawings have collectively appeared on display in Nashville.

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