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City Plan Presents: The American City II Guest Speaker Series As a part of its continuing City Plan initiative, the Division of Community Development invites you to a Guest Speaker series entitled "An American City II - Getting Creative ". By offering a diverse group of nationally known, engaging individuals on a variety of subjects that are relevant and timely to the City Plan process and the citizens of South Bend area, this series serves as second installment to the first series held in Spring 2003. This four -part series will cover issues such as, Economic Development, Environmental Justice, Coalition Building, and Public Spaces. All events take place at the Century Center in downtown South Bend and are free to the public. For more information about the series and the City Plan process, please contact Jitin Kain (235 -5872) or George Adler (235 -5879) from the Division of Community Development. Speaker dates, times, and locations are as follows: John Norquist 7:00 p.m May 5, 2004 Hall A The Wealth of Cities The innate "wealth" of cities lies in providing people with lots of choices: where to eat, what to buy, where to work, whom to hire. John Norquist believes that cities thrive as the market thrives, with a ready supply of labor, a strong demand for goods, and a constant stream of creativity. Norquist, the Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1988 -2003, is currently the President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Under his leadership, poverty declined, downtown housing boomed, and education and welfare reforms attracted national attention. Fred Kent & Kathy Madden 7:00 p.m May 20, 2004 Hall C South Creating a Sense of Place Placemaking is a multi- faceted approach that allows diverse constituencies to create a vision for how a public space can be reshaped into a welcoming, livable, and well - functioning place for a community. Fred Kent and Kathy Madden are the President and Vice President respectively of Project for Public Spaces, a non - profit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public spaces that build communities through technical assistance (planning, design, and management), education and training. Their perspective on place making is based on their belief that improving or developing a public place should be driven by a sense of place, rather than the design. Improvements need to reflect community values and needs.