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Let's Talk About Place: How art, culture, nature, and business can co-exist for good cities

Thursday, October 31 | 12 p.m. ET | Live Zoom Webinar

Placemaking re-imagines cities as more than just functional spaces.

It creates places that foster a sense of belonging, encourage community interaction, help small businesses thrive, and promote environmental sustainability.

The Canadian Urban Institute is hosting a special CityTalk episode with guest host and placemaking specialist, Jacquelyn West, for an engaging conversation about the power of this practice to transform and revitalize our cities, for good.

This session will include insights uncovered in, "Let's Talk about Placemaking", a collective publication featuring insights and projects with an international brain trust of place-based practitioners, coming soon.

Meet our esteemed panel and register today!

CityTalk Exclusive

Flash Sale For 20% Off!

Join us In-Person at the State of Canada's Cities Summit

In honour of World Cities Day, attendees of next week's CityTalk will receive a coupon code to save 20% off the regular ticket price for the upcoming State of Canada's Cities Summit, in Ottawa this Dec. 5-6, 2024. Only attendees are eligible to redeem this offer.

Check out our CityTalk speakers

Guest Host

Jacquelyn West

Placemaking Specialist | Canadian Urban Institute

Jacquelyn West is a creative placemaking professional with extensive experience in supporting growth in the cultural industries. She catalyzes new opportunity for the Canadian creative economy and builds destination strategies for places of cultural consumption and community exchange. Her experience with multi-use contemporary urban projects illustrates her ability to create welcome and belonging for community, iconic third spaces, as well as social, commercial and financial outcomes for all parties. Jacquelyn writes and speaks about the power of cultural districts and of creative industries to be engines for multiple returns in cities.

Nate Storring

Co-Executive Director | Project for Public Spaces

Nate is passionate about engaging the public in urban design, policy, and planning through storytelling. As the Co-Executive Director at Project for Public Spaces, he leads and implements our organizational strategy. He also oversees our Placemaking Program, as well as our communications and development teams. Nate regularly shares his knowledge and love of public space as a keynote speaker at conferences, trainings, and other events. Prior to joining the team in 2015, Nate curated exhibitions and produced events with the Boston Society of Architects, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, the Chicago Architecture Center, and Urbanspace Gallery in Toronto, Ontario.

Madeleine Spencer

Co-director | Placemaking US

Madeleine is a visionary leader dedicated to community development, placemaking, and the celebration of authentic cultural vibrancy in the community. As Co-Director of Placemaking US, a national network organization, she is dedicated to transforming the social life of public spaces and fostering inclusive, living, and thriving communities.

Amanda O'Rourke

Executive Director | 8 80 Cities

Amanda is Executive Director of 8 80 Cities, a not for profit organization based in Toronto Canada. The organization was created based on the simple but powerful concept that if cities are planned, built, and managed thinking of the needs of children and older adults then they will be great for all people. Amanda was a key architect of the 8 80 concept, and has held several positions within the organization since 2007. She has been a key driving force in the development and growth of 8 80 Cities and has worked on numerous projects related to parks, public spaces, and sustainable transportation in North America, Europe, Mexico, and Australia.

Jerome Barth

Executive Director | Belleville Placemaking

Jérôme Barth is a recognized expert in the fields of public space management, placemaking, and urban revitalization. Of French origin, he graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg and from the Stern School of Business (MBA). He settled in the United States and began his career as an urban planner at Bryant Park Corporation and the 34th Street Partnership in New York. There he discovered an innovative public space management model, aiming to make Bryant Park the most pleasant park in the world, thanks to the implementation of an original management model marrying private sector methods and public service objectives. This model allows Bryant Park to be both a vibrant destination for New Yorkers and also an entirely self-financing space that does not require public funds; the first to achieve this goal in the USA.

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For those of you who won't be able to make it live, make sure to watch the recording on our CityTalk website! Recordings are posted within 1-2 weeks of the event.

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