The Happy Urbanist in Buffalo: Recap!

Gosh, there is so much to say about Jon Jon giving a few hours of his time to enlighten and inspire us to “micro dose change”!

Thank you for coming to Buffalo and for hanging out in Buffalo for a few days. We really had such a good time. There was a lot to take in but overall: make small positive changes…as many as you can, as often as you can.

We really were impressed by the Chattanooga Urbanist Society who has built hundreds of benches now for critical areas in need along bus stops. You can follow their bench making guide here: https://urbanistsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Chattanooga-Bench-Guide.pdf

We are going to be doing some bench making in September… cannot wait. If you want to be involved, reach out to get on our discord and help organize / build them with us!

Here are some photos from the event! We had approx. 70 + people show up! What a beautiful summer night.

Thank you to everyone who put cash in our Jane Jacobs hat to make sure Jon Jon could at least make the drive home. Thanks to Partners for a Livable WNY for donating $350 towards pizza and event needs. Thank you to Luke Tarquin who filmed the event (video coming soon) and to Debs Hall for letting us use the space and poured beers all night! It was a summer highlight, for sure.