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The Value of Inclusive Placemaking for Health, Equity, and Well-being: A Workshop

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The workshop began with a "fireside chat" among four speakers with expertise in community development, finance, placemaking, and local government. Three case examples followed, featuring stories of co-creating inclusive healthy places in Houston, Texas, in Richmond, California, and in Detroit, Michigan. The workshop concluded with perspectives from leaders working on the frontiers of the diverse field of placemaking, and an opportunity for audience dialogue and small group work.

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Description

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop designed to understand and highlight the economics of inclusive placemaking and explore its value to improving health, equity, and well-being. Placemaking, i.e., the work of creating livable, vibrant, or quality places, especially public places, draws on various traditions of community development, arts and culture, regional planning, and civic engagement, combining different disciplinary perspectives into a creative way of shaping public spaces, land use, commerce, transportation, housing, and social fabric. With attention to avoiding the unintended negative consequences of placemaking (such as gentrification and displacement, racial and socioeconomic exclusion, and lack of resident leadership), the workshop will (1) examine the economics of this work, (2) describe how inclusive placemakers gather resources to do their work, and (3) explore the social and economic value they are able to generate when places are designed with health, equity, and well-being in mind. A proceedings summarizing the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

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