At The Citizen’s inaugural Ideas We Should Steal Festival, NYU professor Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, talked with Diana Lind, managing director of Penn’s Fels Policy Research Center and a Citizen board member, about making public spaces—parks, libraries and community centers—work for the public.
It is, he noted, a key to everything from reducing crime, good health and surviving climate change.
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If you missed the discussion, or simply want to hear it again, listen on CitizenCast below.
Or, watch Klinenberg and Lind here.
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Idea We Should Steal: In Philadelphia—yes here!—Penn professors and thePennsylvania Horticulture Society made pocket parks out of abandoned lots in North Philly. It reduced gun crime and depression. Let’s broaden that citywide.
Photo credits: Sabina Pierce