Flagstaff Mayor Becky Daggett. Courtesy photo.
FLAGSTAFF — Mayor Becky Daggett has been selected as one of eight 2025 MICD Just City Mayoral Fellows, a program of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) and the Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design taking place in Spring 2025.
In the face of a nationwide housing crisis, the 2025 MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship will explore what it means to house our communities, introducing mayors and their staff to planning and design frameworks – beyond housing supply and demand – that maximize all city resources to support the broad range of housing needs faced by a broad range of city populations. Over a semester-long program, the Lab’s Just City Index frames dynamic presentations and dialogues with experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, art activism, housing, and public policy. Throughout the Fellowship, mayors and their staff identify how injustices manifest in the social, economic, and physical infrastructures of their cities and develop manifestos of action for their communities.
Mayor Daggett said “I can’t wait to get started on this semester of diving deep into Flagstaff’s housing challenges and especially my focus area, which includes preserving existing housing units and enhancing neighborhood amenities and infrastructure. I’m honored to have been selected to participate and excited that city staff gets to join me for some of the classes.”
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD), the nation’s preeminent forum for mayors to address city design and development issues, is a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors. Since 1986, MICD has helped transform communities through design by preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities.
Learn more about the host organizations at www.micd.org and www.designforthejustcity.org.