The function of cities

What is the function of cities?

My work experience reveals a series of answers with over a decade of innovative and creative gestures; rethinking retail as a place of refuge, pop-up markets as spatial justice, public art as foresight strategy, civic engagement as cultural resilience, vacant spaces as business incubators, and backyards transformed into habitat labs for climate action.

As we head into a period of economic uncertainty, what does designing for prosperity look like? During the last downturn our response in the Bay Area as creatives included Spontaneous Interventions, Tactical Urbanism, Guerrilla Planning, and Urban Prototyes to test new solutions to urban challenges. Today we can apply this same strategy, with little pin pricks of innovation, as we test, adapt, or retool urban infrastructure to meet the challenges of climate resilience.

Interested in implementing radical and urgent regenerative approaches to affordable housing, regional climate action plans, and local policies? Want to support ambitious global climate goals in your projects? Through discovery, planing, strategic climate communications, research, analysis, and multi-sector collaboration I welcome collaborators and the opportunity to contribute to your organizational transformation, initiatives, and strategic plans. Leverage my EDI expertise in downscaling climate frameworks to the neighborhood level:
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-Strategic Climate Communications
​-Regenerative Placemaking
-District and city specific and regional planning initiatives, including Climate Action Plans
-Policy toolkits for Local Climate Action

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