What Makes a Great Civic Gathering Space?

October 05, 2016

9:30am - 10:30am

Placemaking is a movement that re-imagines public spaces as the heart of every community. Rooted in community-based participation and grass roots collaboration, Placemaking guides the planning, design, management and programming of public spaces and capitalizes upon a community’s assets – social and physical, as well as creative - to create vibrant destinations that serve a local as well as regional audience.
 
Fred Kent is the Founder and President at Project for Public Spaces (PPS), the hub of the worldwide Placemaking movement. He will share a systematic approach to transforming public spaces into community destinations based on PPS's work with various types of spaces around the world. Fred, the coordinator and chairman of New York City’s first Earth Day in 1970, and again in 1990, will also explain how disciplines respectively focused on the natural and built environments can find common ground in the Placemaking process and how this combined approach is critical to meeting the goals set forth by international forums such as COP21 and Habitat III.

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