by OU IQC | Jun 22, 2015 | Lectures, Placemaking Conference 2015
“We live in a democracy that depends on voters, and voting depends on engagement. The future of the city is crowdsourced.” “At Knight we are exploring how places can be designed to encourage more robust engagement. The places we inhabit every day can...
by OU IQC | Jun 22, 2015 | Lectures, Placemaking Conference 2015
“A brand in a community is a promise a place makes with people. In communities we are working, we are working on branding for people who live there rather than to attract people in.” Tripp Muldrow works with communities to express their identity and...
by OU IQC | Jun 22, 2015 | Lectures, Placemaking Conference 2015
“Cities are being driven by their ability to attract talent. The most important investment a city can make is education.” “Denver is an example of a city that made an intentional decision to invest in mass transit. Oklahoma City made a decision to...
by OU IQC | Jun 22, 2015 | Lectures, Placemaking Conference 2015
“For an investor to succeed in a community-building investment, he or she has to have partners, has to have talent who can drive the investment forward. They have to have a cheering section in a community.” “One of the biggest community challenges...
by OU IQC | Jun 22, 2015 | Lectures, Placemaking Conference 2015
“If a city is requiring more than 3 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet, it is requiring more parking area than building area.” “The public sector comes in and forces the private market to produce a fixed supply of parking and then deliver it free...
by OU IQC | Jun 16, 2015 | Lectures, Placemaking Conference 2015
“In the 19th Century our leading causes of death were infectious diseases and cholera. We didn’t have antibiotics or vaccines, so we had to look at our cities- Planning and public health were birthed together and we were able to defeat many of these...
