Ethan Kent
Executive Director, PlacemakingX
- Role
- Executive Director at Placemakingx
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ethan Kent
Ethan Kent works to support public space organizations, projects, and leadership around the world to build a global placemaking movement. Ethan has traveled to more than cities and 65 countries to advance the cause of leading urban development with inclusive public spaces and placemaking. In 2019 he co-founded PlacemakingX to network, amplify, and accelerate placemaking learning, leadership and impact globally. He builds on more than 20 years of working on placemaking projects and campaigns with Project for Public Spaces. Ethan has been integral to the development of placemaking as a transformative approach to economic development, environmentalism, transportation planning, governance, resilience, social equity, design, digital space, tourism and innovation.Ethan has keynoted well over 100 of the top urbanism conferences and has helped organize dozens of the placemaking conferences that have most shaped the movement.
Experience
Executive Director
Mar 2020 — Present · New York, NY, US
A network to accelerate placemaking for global impact.
Education
International Honors Program
Global Ecology, Economics, Anthropology, International Development, Ecology
Antioch University Seattle
Center for Creative Change: Environment and Community
Bowdoin College
BA, Sociology, Environmental Studies, Economics
Skills
- Urban Design
- Nonprofits
- Land Use Planning
- Sustainable Architecture
- Site Planning
- Research
- Capacity Building
- Non-Profits
- Economic Development
- Community Engagement
- Public Policy
- Mixed-Use
- Parks
- Sustainable Development
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Placemaking
- Landscape Architecture
- Sustainability
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Public Space
- Transportation Planning
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Sustainable Design
- Grant Writing
- Strategic Planning
- Comprehensive Planning
- Redevelopment
- Public Speaking
- Urban Redevelopment
- Urban
- Urban Planning
- Urbanism
- Historic Preservation
- Public Engagement
- Pedestrian Planning
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