{"id":7219,"date":"2016-08-24T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:45:32","slug":"lars-christiansen-friendly-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/24\/lars-christiansen-friendly-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lars Christiansen discusses Friendly Streets Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/lars_christiansen-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lars Christiansen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/lars_christiansen-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/lars_christiansen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/lars_christiansen.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Associate Professor<strong>\u00a0Lars Christiansen<\/strong> teaches courses in Augsburg&#8217;s Department of Sociology and Urban Studies Program. Christiansen puts his scholarship into practice as director of the Friendly Streets Initiative, a St. Paul-based organization that\u00a0facilitates community organizing through\u00a0creative public engagement events. The\u00a0group aims to help communities envision positive change to public spaces, collect and analyze data, and assist\u00a0neighbors in navigating\u00a0city planning processes.<\/p>\n<p>Christiansen described the successes of the Friendly Streets Initiative to author <strong>Jay Walljasper<\/strong> for a chapter of the new book, &#8220;America&#8217;s Walking Renaissance: How cities, suburbs, and towns are getting back on their feet.&#8221; Walljasper serves as a senior fellow in Augsburg&#8217;s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and his writing explores how new ideas in urban planning, tourism, community development, sustainability, politics and culture can improve citizens&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from &#8220;America&#8217;s Walking Renaissance&#8221; was published by MinnPost and included a photo of <strong>Darius Gray &#8217;15<\/strong>, a community organizer with FSI.<\/p>\n<p>Read, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politics-policy\/2016\/08\/friendly-streets-bottom-st-paul-project-changes-way-people-look-their-city\">Friendly Streets: Bottom-up St. Paul project changes the way people look at their city<\/a>&#8221; on the MinnPost site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor\u00a0Lars Christiansen teaches courses in Augsburg&#8217;s Department of Sociology and Urban Studies Program. Christiansen puts his scholarship into practice as director of the Friendly Streets Initiative, a St. Paul-based organization that\u00a0facilitates community organizing through\u00a0creative public engagement events. The\u00a0group aims to help communities envision positive change to public spaces, collect and analyze data, and assist\u00a0neighbors &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7],"tags":[3887,3888,3647,1650,1967,2642,3838],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-darius-gray","tag-friendly-streets-initiative","tag-jay-walljasper","tag-lars-christiansen","tag-minnpost","tag-sociology","tag-urban-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}