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Kid Friendly Cities

  • Co-chaired by Tina Govan, Placemaking Studio
    Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Co-chaired by Madeleine Spencer, PlacemakingUS 
    Santa Ana, California
  • Loni Paniagua, Amigas Social Club
    Santa Ana, California​
  • Flor Reyes, Mommies Unidas
    Santa Ana, Califronia
Join Us! We're current assessing spaces in our communities with our template Kid Friendly Places Scorecard you can use in your community to find out the assets of a space and the improvements people desire there. We're also learning directly from kids through our Kid Mayor video submission program.
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Content Team

  • Ryan Smolar, Production Chair, PlacemakingUS 
    Portland, Oregon
  • Hilary Ho, Editor-at-large
    New York, New York
  • Abraham Gomez, Contributor
    Portland, Oregon
  • Madeleine Spencer, Showrunner, Race and Place
    Santa Ana, California 
  • Tina Govan, Showrunner, Inside Out
    Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Ethan Kent, Content Partern, PlacemakingX
    New York, New York
Abraham Gomez
Hilary Ho

United Streets of Amercia

  • James Rojas, Latino Urbanist, Place IT!
    Oakland, California
  • Triveece Penelton, AICP, Public Involvement Innovator, Vireo
    Kansas City, Missouri
  • Carmen Mays, CEO, Elevators
    Birmingham, Alabama
  • Madeleine Spencer, Coordinator, PlacemakingUS
    Santa Ana, California 
  • Ryan Smolar, Coordinator, PlacemakingUS 
  • Tina Govan, Architect, Placemaking Studio
    Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Erin Holsonback, Landscape Architect, Otten + Associates
    Portland, Oregon
  • Candice Ji, Independent Urban Planner/Architect
    Seattle, Washington
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Parklet for Cambodian Urban Farm/Trauma Healing Center
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Place IT! Workshop for Red Mountain Park

Organizing a Workgroup

PlacemakingUS is a voluntary PlacemakingX regional network inspired by our sister networks in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

We need. your help jumpstarting our network by organizing a national topic workgroup around issues like Climate Change, Tool Testing, Publications/Reports or Inclusivity.

See a full list of Europe's established workgroups.
Contact Network Leader Ryan Smolar to get started!
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