CIVIQ with Eric Kronberg

"Housing First,

Incremental Strategies and Tools"

CIVIQ with Eric Kronberg

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Chattanooga Public Library, Downtown Branch

5:30-7:00 pm

Always Free, All Welcome

Chattanooga Design Studio

thanks the Lyndhurst Foundation for seeding and funding

CIVQ: A Series Honoring Robert Taylor.

Eric Kronberg is a zoning whisperer. He specializes in balancing and blending the often competing needs of urban design, architecture, and development in a potent cocktail for better places. Eric breaks down and demystifies regulations to find ways to make great projects possible while helping others navigate the redevelopment maze. He uses his skills for the force of good as a principal at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects (KUA), leading the firm’s skilled practitioners to help their development partners create better places for all. His work with KUA, the Incremental Development Alliance, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Georgia Conservancy, and the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition has solidified his stance as an advocate for walkable communities.

Through his work in Chattanooga, Eric Kronberg offers a unique perspective to the CIVIQ series:

While homelessness is a complex issue, it is, at its core, a housing problem. Kronberg Urbanists + Architects, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, and Lyndhurst Foundation have partnered to prepare a housing first toolkit to address the lack of attainable housing throughout Chattanooga. The toolkit provides housing prototypes that can fit seamlessly into existing neighborhoods. An incremental approach of attainable housing allows infill at a manageable and discrete scale, while also avoiding concentrations of poverty.

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Chattanooga Design Studio is an independent non-profit community resource that promotes excellence in urban design through education, facilitation, and collaboration. CIVIQ is a quarterly event that introduces and humanizes national and international movements in urban design.