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Guest: Phil Ginsburg, General Manager Recreation and Park Dep. San Francisco Key Takeaways Parks are necessary for physical, mental, social and civic well-being. Placemaking can be paired with climate adaptation. Sunset Dunes combines pedestrianization with dune...
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Guest: Shannon Baker, Waterfront Toronto Key Takeaways Flood protection and ecological restoration can be integrated at a large scale. The Port Lands project is a seven-year, $1.4B effort that renaturalizes the mouth of the Don River while lifting land out of a...
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Guests: Gideon Berger, Washington DC, USA • Rachel Bennett, MIG Berkeley, CA, USA • Wayne Miles, Raleigh, NC, USA Key Takeaways ⇢ Public parks offer scalable sites for stormwater capture, flood mitigation, heat buffering and biodiversity gains. ⇢ Aligning parks,...
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Guest: Alexa Bush, Director Planning & Dev. City of Detroit, USA Key Takeaways ⇢ Well‑designed, co‑created parks and streetscapes can reverse decades‑long declines in social cohesion and faith in government. ⇢ Embedding public space investments within broader...
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Guests: Madeleine T. Spencer • Principal, Diamond Heart Enterprises, USA and Thomas (TJ) Maguire • Senior Urban Designer at Evergreen, Canada Key Takeaways ⇢ Designing for delight—playful “snot-and-drool” moments—makes places memorable and adored. ⇢ Embody kindness in...
