Mike Lydon, founding principal of The Street Plans Collaborative and co-author of The Smart Growth Manual will speak at the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington.  Lydon will lead a session on Innovating the Built Environment which will look at how our built environment impacts our economic vitality, our social capital, our environment and even our health.

Lydon is also recognized as an expert on developing a bike culture and will be part of a panel called Taming the Car:  Reclaiming Our Cities from the Tyranny of the Transportation Department.

One of the key concepts we will be featuring at CCS LEX is how to balance the needs of people with the requirements of the car and transportation.  Here is CCS Founder Peter Kageyama on the topic of “taming the car.”