Library Lunch Series: Matt Hanka discusses What's Happening in Your Community?

Name: Library Lunch Series: Matt Hanka discusses What's Happening in Your Community?
Start: 2024-05-16T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Jefferson County Public Law Library

Schedule

Thu May 16 2024 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Jefferson County Public Law Library | Louisville, KY

Join us as author Matt Hanka discusses his book What’s Happening In Your Community? This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served. Reservations are not required, but you may RSVP the library at 502-574-5943 (or click “going” for this event) for planning purposes.
Communities are not static or stationary organisms. They are fluid and dynamic and change over time. The role of community development in the change and transformation of a community is critical to improving and enhancing the quality of life of the community and its residents. This book examines how community development changes a community and why that change matters, while also examining the relationship between community development and social capital. When a community improves its social capital, change can happen because people can leverage their networks to produce better results for themselves. This book also looks at comprehensive community development and collective impact models and several case studies that utilize these models. It also looks at how the transformation and revitalization of a neighborhood through new housing creates opportunities for people everywhere, and how effective placemaking strategies empower diverse groups of people in a community to reimagine their public spaces and the built environment to be more livable, walkable, creative, and sustainable while fostering greater connections with people in their community.
-- from Amazon description