As neighborhoods evolve, what should urban design look like? How should the planning rely on creativity, consciously centered in - and engaged with - the community it is supposed to serve?

Eric Myers & Erika Roberts of Chattanooga Design Studio. Mike Dougher of the new Arts Avenue in Chattanooga. Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series: Aaron Burdett, Part I. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots."

Richard Winham shares a high-energy session with The Afternooners, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.

Martha Bassett has been making music in North Carolina and beyond for more than twenty years. She is the host of “The Martha Bassett Show” - a weekly one-hour program that highlights artists in the roots and Americana scene, both nationwide and in North Carolina’s Piedmont - and Martha’s own music.

Live here on WUTC, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly stopped by our studio for the first of our monthly conversations.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joins us for a live conversation. Martha Bassett, host of “The Martha Bassett Show” in NC. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Richard Winham shares the first half of a conversation with poet and essayist Sherry Poff, who is also a teacher and one of the founding members of the Chattanooga Writers' Guild.

The Scopes Festival returns this weekend to Dayton, Tennessee. The annual gathering commemorates the July 1925 trial in Dayton of John Scopes, a high school teacher accused of violating a Tennessee law that barred the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Rick Dye on the return of the Scopes Festival to Dayton, TN. Talking Writing: Poet and essayist Sherry Poff, Part I. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Richard Winham shares the second half of a performance by The Foreign Landers - featuring folk-and-bluegrass married duo David and Tabitha Benedict - for the Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC.