Name: SHORT TALKS: Creating People-First Streets, Transit & Infrastructure
Start: 2024-06-05T14:00:00-0400
End: 2024-06-05T15:15:00-0400

SHORT TALKS: Creating People-First Streets, Transit & Infrastructure

This Short Talk session will feature presentations that focus on the connection between streets/transportation and placemaking.

Short Talks are moderated lighting round sessions with multiple short presentations, featuring presenters who will be speaking on a related topic. They are a great way to hear a range of cases, geographies, perspectives and sub-topics within one space! Short Talks are also being held in our largest venue, so they are good sessions to be in if you want some space from the crowd.

Presentation titles and speakers:

Sabina Sethi Unni - "School Streets: Strategies for Placemaking for Youth"

Jacque Gonzalez-Garcia - "How Houston’s First Car-Free Street is Here to Stay"

Sam Carter-Shamai - "From Highway to Hybrid Infrastructure: Transforming Public Space Below Toronto's Elevated Expressway"

Oscar Suastegui Quintero - "The approach of placemaking as a public policy in Mexico city"

Derek Moore - "Transit Oriented Placemaking in Central West Baltimore"

Yuxiang Luo - "Highway Cap and Stitch as Opportunity for Equitable Economic Development"

Maura Dwyer - "Designing a creative bus shelter that centers transit user needs while existing as a stand-alone piece of public art"

Jackson Chabot - Moderator

Speakers

Derek Moore

Co-Founder, Friends of the Underground

Derek Moore is a non profit Development worker, Graduate student in City and Regional Planning at Morgan State University, and 1st time home buyer in Central West Baltimore. His work focuses on community and economic development, housing, and transportation issues in Baltimore.

Jacque Gonzalez-Garcia

Planning & Design Manager, Downtown Houston+

Maura Dwyer

Public Art Coordinator, Station North Arts District, a program of Central Baltimore Partnership

Oscar Suastegui Quintero

Deputy Director for On-street Parking, Mobility Ministry of Mexico City

I am a landscape architect with 11 years of experience in public service, private sector and non governmental organizations. I am passionate about mobility, urban planning and public space. During my professional career, I have had the opportunity to coordinate technical and multidisciplinary... Read More →

Sabina Sethi Unni

Schools Planner, Open Plans

Sabina Sethi Unni is an urban planner, organizer, and public artist who works with Open Plans to create joyful spaces for youth. Born and raised in Long Island, she's deeply involved in climate organizing in Nassau, east Queens, and Rockaway.

Sam Carter-Shamai

Manager of Planning, The Bentway

Sam Carter-Shamai is an interdisciplinary planner and designer focused on hybrid infrastructure, affordable housing and inclusive public space. Manager of Planning for the Bentway Conservancy, and board chair of the Neighbourhood Land Trust in Toronto, Sam works toward equitable outcomes... Read More →

Yuxiang Luo

Director, JLP+D

Yuxiang Luo is Director at JLP+D, where he guides urban and economic development strategies for public, private, and non-profit clients across North America. At JLP+D, Yuxiang has worked on projects spanning 20 cities and counting. Yuxiang has presented his work at ULI and the American... Read More →

Jackson Chabot

Director of Advocacy and Organizing, Open Plans

Wednesday June 5, 2024 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
MICA - Brown Center, Falvey Hall

Short Talks

Placemaking Week 2024