Client: A Better City

Year: 2019

Project Team + Panelists

• A Better City  (event planning + organizing)

• STREETPLANS (Keynote Speaker)

• City of Boston

• JP Centre / South Main Street

• Neighborways Design

• Merritt Chase

• Utile

• Toole Design

*Work completed at A Better City

The “Plazas, Parklets, and Pop-Ups In The Public Realm” event brought together a cross-section of city staff, nonprofit leaders, and designers to present on tactical placemaking projects from around the Boston area. The panelists included:

• Green Street Parklet: Jamaica Plain presented by Ginger Brown, Executive Director, JP Centre / South Main Street

• Neighborways Community Based Pavement Painting presented by Mark Chase, Founder/Project Manager, Neighborways Design

• Birch Street Plaza: Roslindale Village by Nina Chase, Principal & Co-Founder, Merritt Chase (unable to attend due to weather. Presented by Jacob Wessel)

• Tactical Urbanism 2020 presented by Mike Lydon, Principal, STREETPLANS Keynote Speaker 

• Mathtalk Aha! See Math Everywhere by Omo Moses, Founder, MathTalk (unable to attend due to weather. Presented by Michelle Moon of A Better City)

• Bringing Life to Streets presented by Jessica Robertson, Associate, Utile

• Plazas Downtown Boston presented by Jacob Wessel, Public Realm Director, City of Boston

• Gove Street Crossing: East Boston presented by Stephanie Weyer, Landscape Architect, Toole Design