Bo Kennedy

Bo Kennedy, Project Manager & Engineer at Placemaker Partners, LLC, contributes to the 'State of Maine' address at the annual Build Maine 2017 conference, held in June 2017.

Placemaker Partners LLC on Thompson’s Point

Bo Kennedy, Project Manager & Engineer at Placemaker Partners, LLC, contributes to the 'State of Maine' address at the annual Build Maine 2017 conference, held in June 2017.

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Ann Sussman

The car industry has known for years how to predict consumer reaction to vehicle design. Ann will share new research, using eye-tracking technology that proves beauty is in fact biological. Find out how your town or city can use these findings to attract people to your community.

Architect, Author, Researcher

The car industry has known for years how to predict consumer reaction to vehicle design. Ann will share new research, using eye-tracking technology that proves beauty is in fact biological. Find out how your town or city can use these findings to attract people to your community.

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Eric Kronberg

Eric will highlight how small-scale infill can breathe value into downtowns and provide a way for more people to break into the real estate development field. He will also help municipalities understand where zoning and other policies can suppress incremental development.

PRincipal | Kronberg Wall

Eric will highlight how small-scale infill can breathe value into downtowns and provide a way for more people to break into the real estate development field. He will also help municipalities understand where zoning and other policies can suppress incremental development.

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Patrick Kennedy

Patrick will share recent examples of the New York City Department of Transportation’s efforts to shift the use of public space away from vehicles and toward pedestrians, cyclists, and civic space.

Urban Planner | New York City Department of Transportation

Patrick will share recent examples of the New York City Department of Transportation’s efforts to shift the use of public space away from vehicles and toward pedestrians, cyclists, and civic space.

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Stephen Edwards

Find out how temporary, inexpensive materials have been effectively deployed to more quickly improve streets in Memphis, saving money and building economic value.

Design Engineer | City of Memphis Division of Traffic Engineering

Find out how temporary, inexpensive materials have been effectively deployed to more quickly improve streets in Memphis, saving money and building economic value.

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Scott Doyon

Public engagement is not an end. It’s a means to an end. A tool for getting things done. And like any tool, how it’s used makes all the difference. In this session, Scott discusses the community dynamics frequently at play — like politics, mistrust and fear — and suggests ways to overcome them through more strategic, context-driven and outcome-oriented thinking.

Principal | PlaceMakers

Public engagement is not an end. It’s a means to an end. A tool for getting things done. And like any tool, how it’s used makes all the difference. In this session, Scott discusses the community dynamics frequently at play — like politics, mistrust and fear — and suggests ways to overcome them through more strategic, context-driven and outcome-oriented thinking.

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Donald Shoup

Every city struggles with how to regulate parking and manage competing interests, time and again repackaging the same old rules that continue to drive undesirable development. Shoup will lay out a strategy for how cities can repeal archaic parking regulations and adopt new approaches focused on market demand, data, and desired development.

Distinguished Research Professor | Department of Urban Planning, UCLA

Every city struggles with how to regulate parking and manage competing interests, time and again repackaging the same old rules that continue to drive undesirable development. Shoup will lay out a strategy for how cities can repeal archaic parking regulations and adopt new approaches focused on market demand, data, and desired development.

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