New challenges for shaping growth and building great urban neighborhoods in the 21st century will be addressed at an upcoming event featuring David Dixon, a well known urban planner with Goody Clancy Associates of Boston, Mass.

Dixon will speak about successful neighborhoods in the new urban environment, focusing on the challenges and advantages of density and the needs of our urban neighborhoods on:

Monday, Nov. 15, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
(Dixon presentation at 6 p.m.)
Seattle City Hall’s Bertha Landes Room
600 Fourth Ave. (entrance on Fifth Ave.)

This event is part of Mayor Nickels’ Center City Seattle project—a strategy for the downtown core and the nine adjacent neighborhoods which focuses on economic growth, transportation, new housing, and great urban neighborhoods.

Over the next 20 years it is anticipated that Center City Seattle will receive over half of the new housing and jobs coming to Seattle—an estimated 57,000 new jobs and over 24,000 new housing units. Major changes coming include the replacement of the viaduct, the redevelopment of the central waterfront, light rail, the monorail, the Westlake streetcar, new and improved parks, biotech development, and new mixed use development.