Author: Conexion

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Media Type: Pamphlet

Summary:

Conexión Américas has worked in partnership with the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), a leader in building healthy communities — notably with new policies in 2010 that prioritized transportation projects with walking and bicycling infrastructure and dedicated funds for active transportation. [Introduction, p. 1]

Abstract:

In early 2016, as a way to gain greater insight into the interlocking past, present and future of the Nolensville Pike corridor of South Nashville, Conexión Américas undertook an ambitious multimodal examination of the area. The project comprises three main undertakings.

First, a public art project in which high school students design and create a temporary bus shelter that encourages conversation about community needs and leads to better implementation of transit in the area. Second, an oral history project in which current and former students in Glencliff High School's Escalera program interview longtime residents of the neighborhood and alumni of the school. Third, a monthlong series of Creative Labs in which members of the local community gather to discuss the assets and shortcomings of the Nolensville Pike area and imagine what it could one day become.

The results were thought-provoking and inspiring. This is the story of how they came to be. [Introduction, p. 1]

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Transportation & Infrastructure, Community Development, Civic Dialogue and Social Change, Access and Equity