Author

Writer, poet, literary scholar, and translator.

We highlight what makes public spaces thrive, drawing from communities around the world.

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

Askold Melnyczuk is an author and editor.

State of Place helps you harness the power of data to more quickly, efficiently, and effectively deliver places people deserve.

Rural speaker and small town activist.

International speaker on rural and small town development topics.

We believe small towns can be saved by their own people using their own resources.

I am the Chief Operations Officer for the New York Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. I have also recently helped create PLACE Initiative, which is an organization working to address climate change, social justice, and the need to create receiver cities to accommodate the migration of people who will need to move out of harm's way.

Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization beyond borders based on free association of those who write, edit, translate, research and publish literature work in Chinese worldwide.

Michael H. Shuman is a leading visionary on community economics.

Phil Myrick is a global placemaking leader and advisor to public realm, institutional, and mixed use development projects.

Stephanie Nash is a singer/songwriter and farmer advocating for community building and agriculture.

BlackSpace demands a present and future where Black people, Black spaces, and Black culture matter and thrive.

Jim Diers is a speaker, facilitator, author and activator assisting associations and agencies in support of caring, inclusive and powerful communities.

The voice of conscience of Vietnamese writers across the globe.

Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.

We are a rapidly growing affordable artist studio/vacancy management company that creates affordable artist studios in vacant spaces around the United States where artists can create and collaborate at an affordable price.

The Urban Conga is an international multidisciplinary design studio focused on exploring the idea of a Playable City as an ecosystem of multiscale playable opportunities intertwined within our existing urban infrastructure.