Your Town Alabama: Designing Our Future

Welcome to Your Town Alabama

Your Town Alabama now has a blog: visit it to get current information about grants, workshops, conferences, success stories and more! Visit the Your Town Alabama Blog NOW!

2008 Your Town Alabama workshop, scheduled for June 18 – 20, 2008 at Camp McDowell. 
This is our 10th year anniversary!  Learn more and register online here.

"The best information gathering session I have ever attended, I did not want it to end." Quote from 2007 YT Class Participant.

"Just wanted to say thanks for reccomending the workshop, it was a huge success! I haven't been able to stop talking about it... I enjoyed it thoroughly and I learned alot!" Quote from 2006 YT Class Participant.

“The YourTown Alabama workshop was like no other conference or meeting I've attended--in the very best sense. I probably can't do justice to the thought it has provoked, the energy it inspires, and the hope it gives. Thank you so much. I hate that we can't come again year after year! I will, though, send names of people who will benefit from and use its wealth of information and resources.” Quote from 2005 YT Class Participant.

Towns, villages and neighborhoods in Alabama, and across America, face an uncertain future—a future which is increasingly threatened by large scale economic changes, population shifts, land policy changes, the impact of electronic commerce and mass merchandising. In the face of these changes, communities find themselves struggling to maintain their vitality and even their sense of identity.

Whether the threat is sudden growth or stagnation, planning and design decisions can often make the difference between survival and decay, between healthy prosperity and decline. Despite the crucial importance of planning and design, small communities rarely have good access to professional assistance or information regarding the application of planning and design to their communities' issues. The YourTown Alabama program is a first step in meeting these needs.

The workshop format is an intensive engagement of citizen leaders and professionals. The two and one half days are highly participatory with lectures, case-study presentations, and interactive group problem solving, including work on realistic issues in a hypothetical small town.

The goal is to provide advanced leadership skills supported by information and planning tools that can be taken home to all corners of our state and applied to the process of Designing Our Future!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2007 Graduating Class