One to One – Creative Cities Summit Lexington from Peter Kageyama on Vimeo.

Creative Cities Summit founder and producer Peter Kageyama and Phil Holoubek, Lexington developer and co-producer on KET’s One to One with Bill Goodman.

In this excerpt from the documentary Charles Landry and the Art of City Making, we get a glimpse into how Landry thinks, how he presents and what he thinks about his own work.  This segment also features Richard Florida discussing Landry and his work.

Charles Landry & the Art of City Making Pt 5 from Peter Kageyama on Vimeo.

Charles Landry has long been a proponent of cities as cities have always been at the heart of culture and civilization and the hubs of innovation and wealth creation. Today cities face enormous challenges as economic, social and infrastructural problems abound. His seminal book, The Creative City, was a clarion call for imaginative action and to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues.

Ranging from walking the streets in the UK to historic Savannah, Georgia to his 400 year old home in the Cotswolds, here we see the origins of his work, his inspirations and insights into the future of cities.

Featuring Dr. Richard Florida, John Howkins, Carol Coletta, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Creative Cities Summit Lexington is very pleased to announce the participation of a special delegation from Michigan at the conference next week.  The delegation will participate in a special session titled “Fighting Back – Messages from Detroit” on Friday, April 9^th at 11am.

“Detroit remains the psychic center of the American economy” said CCS founder and producer Peter Kageyama.  “People need to know that cities in crisis can fight back and do amazingly innovative and creative things.  That is why we wanted to bring this group from Michigan to tell those stories.”

The delegation was able to attend thanks to the support of the Michigan Municipal League and the New Economy Initiative in Detroit.  Sean Mann of the Michigan Municipal League and the founder of Let’s Save Michigan will serve as the moderator. “We are excited to share our firsthand accounts of Detroit to a wider audience and hopefully shape a richer, more optimistic narrative about our city,” said Mann.

The delegation includes:

Karen Gagnon, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Cool Cities
Eric Cedo, Unity Studios
Phillip Cooley, Los Pistoleros
Mark Covington, Georgia Street Community Collective
Claire Nelson,  Open City

Next American City is a national quarterly magazine about making cities better. Their Editor in Chief Diana Lind will be a speaker at the Creative Cities Summit on Thursday, April 8th in a session on Media & the City.

“I am thrilled to have Diana, a national expert on cities, urban issues and the media for this important session” said Summit producer Peter Kageyama.  The session will look at the critical role traditional and new media is playing in the shaping of community narratives and how more and more citizen journalists are changing the direction and the discourse of local media.

One of the key concepts we will be featuring at CCS LEX is how to balance the needs of people with the requirements of the car and transportation.  Here is CCS Founder Peter Kageyama on the topic of “taming the car.”