2015 Placemaking Conference

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Branding Communities – Tripp Muldrow

"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...

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Anchoring Quality Communities – Tom Murphy

"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...

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Place-Based Investment – Vincent LoVoi

"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...

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Parking in Livable Communities – Jeffrey Tumlin

"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...

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Active Design for Healthy Places – Karen Lee

"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...

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