2025 is a big year for the Civic Design Center! It marks the 20th Anniversary of The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City. Throughout the year, we will be looking back on all of the bold ideas in this instrumental 50-Year vision for our city. Since we are only 20 years into a 50-year plan, think of 2025 as a checkpoint. How far have we come in achieving these visions? What have we strayed from? What new goals do we need to advocate for in the next 30 years? 

If you aren’t yet familiar with The Plan and its significance, we will help you get acquainted! We are kicking off the anniversary year with an Urban Design Forum that will provide attendees with background on Nashville’s first long range plan, predating the comprehensive planning effort, Nashville Next. We will also focus on significant moments from the last 20 years in Nashville’s history and how we imagine this new history will influence planning for the next few decades. We will be sharing the unpublished community-created timeline that supported the history chapter in the book, and extending the timeline together at the event. 

In true Civic Design Center fashion, you may come for the cooler full of beer, but you’ll stay for the thought-provoking activity. This is the part where we write our own history.  

Kicking off the Book Club 

Attendees will also have a chance to sign up for The Plan of Nashville Book Club that will take place once a month from February-June. We will challenge community members to read or re-read The Plan in sections and join us for small group discussion starting Thursday, February 27th. 

Avenues to a Great City Exhibition at the Frist Art Musuem 

Opens July 10th