Nate Storring is the Co-Executive Director of Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit organization that promotes placemaking around the world through training, events, and on-the-ground projects. As a writer, researcher, curator, and convener, Storring has spent his career documenting and promoting participatory approaches to city building. His latest book Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World (Brookings Institution Press, 2022) is an interdisciplinary collection of essays about the ecosystem of organizations that steward the public realm in American cities and towns. His first edited book Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs (Random House, 2016) brought together for the first time the essays, speeches, and interviews of one of the key forerunners of the placemaking movement.