A Design Thinking Approach to Infrastructure
A Design Thinking Approach to Infrastructure  
Podcast: The Strong Towns Podcast
Published On: Thu Dec 01 2016
Description: Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota, and serves as Director of the Metropolitan Design Center. He's a graduate of Cornell University in architecture and the author of several books including Designing to Avoid Disaster and Designing our Way to a Better World. In this conversation with Chuck Marohn, Professor Fisher discusses a design-thinking approach of bottom-up vs. top-down decisionmaking, and the danger of building the wrong types of infrastructure for the future of America. This interview is part of our ongoing conversation on federal infrastructure spending.