Salisbury – The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) announced today that it has chosen Salisbury to participate in an MICD technical assistance workshop for small and mid-sized cities. MICD sessions bring mayors face-to-face with leading design and development experts to find solutions to the most critical planning and design challenges facing their cities. This session will be Salisbury’s second with MICD, with the City having previously been selected to participate in the 2016 session in Miami Beach, Florida. Mayor Day is the first mayor to be selected twice to participate in MICD’s 32-year history.
Since 1986, the MICD has worked in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, American Architectural Foundation, and United States Conference of Mayors to improve cities by focusing on design, and by urging mayors to act as the chief urban designers of their cities. Every year, MICD holds six of its trademark sessions in various cities across country. Participation in each session is limited to just 8 mayors and 8 preeminent design and development professionals. In Columbus, Mayor Day will be joined by the mayors of Bentonville, Arkansas; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Fairhope, Alaska; Gallatin, Tennessee; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and host city, Columbus, Indiana.
Elected in 2015, Mayor Day holds degrees in architecture, urban design and environmental policy from the University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon University and Oxford University, and has served as a member of the American Institute of Architects National Board of Directors. He has been honored as a fellow of the Next American Vanguard, Leadership Maryland and the Smart Growth America Local Leaders Council. A two-time winner of the Maryland Sustainable Growth Award, the Maryland League of Conservation Voters’ Teddy Roosevelt Award and the Partners for Livable Communities’ Entrepreneurial American Leadership Award, Mayor Day has published articles and spoken extensively around the country on urban design, revitalization and place-based economic development.
“I am incredibly excited to return to MICD,” said the Mayor. “As a participant in the 2016 Miami session, I gained a wealth of insight into how the other cities—some of them significantly larger than Salisbury—go about finding solutions to the challenges they face. Though some issues are unique to the city within which they arise, subjects such as revitalization and reinvigoration of neglected districts, the replacement of old and inadequate infrastructure, or the improvement of pedestrian facilities are common concerns in many cities and towns across America today. To be able to collaborate with other mayors and industry professionals in a setting such as MICD is a rare opportunity.”
For more information on the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, go to www.micd.org
