Speaker BIO
Peter Kageyama is the author of For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places, the follow up, Love Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places and the latest, The Emotional Infrastructure of Places. Peter is a Senior Fellow with the Alliance for Innovation, a national network of city leaders and a special advisor to America In Bloom.
He is the former President of Creative Tampa Bay, a grassroots community change organization and the co-founder of the Creative Cities Summit, an interdisciplinary conference that brings citizens and practitioners together around the big idea of ‘the city.’
He is an internationally sought-after community development consultant and grassroots engagement strategist who speaks all over the world about bottom-up community development and the amazing people who are making change happen.
What Peter Talks About
How we create more engaged citizens without major resources
How arts and culture impact our feelings about places
How our infrastructure shapes our experiences and perceptions of places
How we fall in love with our cities; what works and what we don’t respond to
How a small number of people who are “in love” with their city can change their places
What little things matter in the relationship with place making
Who Should Attend
Government leaders
City Managers & Planners
Arts and Cultural leaders
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
Parks & Recreations leaders
Equity and Social Justice leaders
Architects and Developers
Education leaders
Concerned citizens who want to improve their community
