Fred Kent Biography

Fred Kent is a leading authority on revitalizing city spaces and one of the foremost thinkers in livability smart growth and the future of the city. As founder and president of Project for Public Spaces he is known throughout the world as a dynamic speaker and prolific ideas man.Traveling over 150000 miles each year Fred offers technical assistance to communities and has given talks across the U.S. as well as internationally. Each year he and the PPS staff train 10000 people in Placemaking techniques.
Audiences Fred has addressed include the Smart Growth Network Federal Highway Administration U.S. General Services Administration American Society of Landscape Architects American Public Transit Association U.S Forest Service the World Bank New Jersey DOT New York DOT Ford Foundation Caltrans Connecticut Main Street Center and the Princes Foundation. He has trained over 1000 transportation professionals from statewide DOTs in addition to many thousands of community and neighborhood groups across the country.
Fred studied with Margaret Mead and worked with William H. Whyte on the Street Life Project assisting in observations and film analysis of corporate plazas urban streets parks and other open spaces in New York City. The research resulted in the now classic The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces published in 1980 which laid out conclusions based on decades of meticulous observation and documentation of human behavior in the urban environment.

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