Mayor Funkhouser Participates in Mayor's Institute on City Design

Mayor Mark Funkhouser is in Charleston, South Carolina, participating in an intensive strategy session with the Mayors' Institute on City Design November 9 - 11.

The Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD) is a partnership program of the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Architectural foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors. The MICD organizes sessions where mayors engage leading design experts to find solutions to the most critical urban design challenges facing their cities. Sessions are organized around case-study problems. Each mayor presents a problem or project from his or her city for the other mayors and designers to discuss.

Mayor Funkhouser will present as his project the New Tools for Economic Development in Distressed Areas initiative. Kansas City's e

conomically distressed areas are defined as areas where the median household income is less than 70 percent of the median income for the entire city, as revealed in the 2000 Census.

One of Mayor Funkhouser's top priorities is to find new ways to revitalize these areas.

For more information please contact Kendrick Blackwood at 513-3513.