Ethan Kent
PlacemakingX Executive Director
Brooklyn, New York
Ethan Kent works to support public space and placemaking leadership around the world, to grow the
global placemaking movement. In 2019 he co-founded
PlacemakingX to network and
accelerate placemaking for global impact, growing 18+ regional placemaking networks that he helped initiate.
Ethan builds on more than two decades of experience working with local communities on public space and placemaking projects and campaigns,
traveling to more than 1000 cities and towns, in 60 countries. He 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,
inclusion,
tourism and
innovation.
Ethan has keynoted well over 100 leading urbanism conferences and has helped organize dozens of
the conferences that have most shaped the placemaking movement.
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