Carol Binder
Executive Director
Pike Place Market
PDA, Seattle, WA, USA
As Executive Director of the
Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority, Carol Binder works to preserve and maintain
the cultural identity of that historic institution. She oversees nearly 100 PDA
employees who run the Market’s maintenance, security, custodial, leasing, housing,
daystall, farm and administrative programs.
Carol has a long history with Pike Place Market, beginning with her eight-year
term on the Pike Place Market’s governing Council in the 1990s, serving as Interim
Executive Director in 1999 and returning to the position permanently in 2003.
In her tenure thus far, she has overseen the construction of a new, low-income
senior housing/senior center building, the Market’s Centennial bash in 2007, and
the successful capital planning program, funded by a voter-approved tax levy in
2008. In 2009, the Market commenced a multi year major Market renovation, focusing
on preserving the buildings, improving their functionality and sustainability.
With over 20 years of experience in finance and nonprofit development, she has
acted as a strategic consultant to many of Seattle’s nonprofit organizations,
government agencies and small businesses, assisting clients such as Boeing Employees
Community Fund, the City of Seattle, and King County Metro with business development
and financial analysis. She has a degree in Accounting from the University of
Oregon and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington.
Rob Cowan
Director
Urban Design Skills
London, England
Robert Cowan is a director of the London-based consultant and training provider
Urban Design Skills. He is the author of The Dictionary of Urbanism and editor of Context, the journal
of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. His publications include The
Connected City, The Cities Design Forgot, Urban Design Guidance, London After
Dark and Re:urbanism. He has written design policy and guidance for England and
Wales, and for the Scottish Government. He devised the community audit method
Placecheck and the urban design skills appraisal method Capacitycheck. He is an
illustrator and his weekly cartoon appeared in Planning for 20 years. Recorded
Public Lecture with Rob Cowan, New Castly University
Fred Kent
President
Project for Public Spaces
New York, NY
Fred Kent founded Project for Public spaces over 35 years ago and is regarded
as a leading authority on revitalizing city spaces and one of the foremost thinkers
in livability, smart growth and the future of the city. Fred travels over 150,000 miles each year, offering technical assistance to
communities and giving talks across the US, as well as internationally, on the
importance of place. Each year, he and the PPS staff train over 10,000 people
in Placemaking techniques.
Currently, Fred is working on a new major multi-use waterfront destination for
Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Saadiyat Island will offer a transit-based and walkable
mix of recreational, cultural and commercial offerings. The Tourism Development
and Investment Company (TDIC) of Abu Dhabi engaged PPS to develop a detailed master
plan and development guidelines for the Marina Waterfront Precinct with the goal
of creating a vibrant waterfront district that becomes the hub of island life
and a regional destination.
Over the past 35 years, Fred has worked on hundreds of projects, including Bryant
Park, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square in New York City; Discovery Green in
Houston, TX; Campus Martius in Detroit, MI; Main Street in Littleton, NH; Granville
Island in Vancouver, BC, Canada; and a City-Wide Placemaking Campaign in Chicago,
IL. In addition to projects, Fred has led trainings across the world for audiences
such as the Urban Redevelopment Agency and the National Parks Board in Singapore,
representatives from the City of Hong Kong, the Ministry of Environment in Norway,
the leading Dutch transportation organization in the Netherlands, Greenspace in
Scotland, UK, numerous transportation professionals from US State DOTs, and thousands
of community and neighborhood groups across the US.
Before founding PPS, Fred studied with Margaret Mead and worked with William
H. Whyte on the Street Life Project, assisting in observations and film analysis
of corporate plazas, urban streets, parks and other open spaces in New York City.
The research resulted in the now classic ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’,
published in 1980, which laid out conclusions based on decades of meticulous observation
and documentation of human behavior in the urban environment.
Kathy Madden
Senior Vice President
Project for Public Spaces
New York, NY
Kathy Madden is an environmental designer who has been at PPS since its inception
in 1975. During this time, Kathy has been involved in all aspects of the organization’s
work. She has directed over 300 research and urban design projects along with
training programs throughout the U.S and abroad. She also currently directs PPS’s
Placemaking Training and Public Space Research and Publications programs.
Kathy has co-authored and written both books and articles, including the PPS
best-selling publication How to Turn a Place Around, which has now been translated
into Czech and Japanese. She has lectured extensively and conducts, in conjunction
with other PPS staff, PPS’s semi-annual How to Turn a Place Around training program
in New York. While at PPS she taught for six years at the Pratt School of Architecture
Graduate Program in Urban Design.
In 1995, Kathy started the Urban Parks Institute with a $2.2 million grant from
the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. The Institute brought together over 2,000
parks leaders from both the private and public sectors in eight national conferences
and four regional workshops. The Institute produced a volume of research and publications
related to urban parks, and created a major online resource center for urban parks
best practices and research, Urban Parks Online, which attracts over one million
page views annually.
Prior to working at PPS, Kathy worked at the Institute for Architecture and Urban
Studies and at the New York City Parks Department where she conducted an evaluation
of park equipment and street furniture.
Alexis Pontvik
Professor in urban design
KTH Architecture and the Built Environment
Stockholm, Sweden
Born in 1951, returned to Sweden in 1988 after 25 years of living and working
abroad. Educated at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and at the Architectural Association
in London, he now runs a studio in Stockholm with a wide-ranging field of operation.
Current projects vary from a master plan for a Palestinian border crossing, a
new art gallery in Uddevalla, urban design projects, interior design projects,
a large design exhibition in Brussels, working as a counsellor to the Swedish
Civil Aviation Administration, collaborating with an artist on a temporary structure.
"It's like life itself, I would get bored doing just one type of design work." Whatever Pontvik does, even when working as an art exhibition producer or industrial
designer, he always lets the project derive from the cause by extensive analysis.
Many projects involve collaboration with different artists.
"Art, architecture and design are themselves the core themes in everything I
do."
Eric Reynolds
Founding Director
Urban Space Management
London, England
Eric Reynolds has been involved in numerous urban regeneration schemes since
the early 1970's, many including the practical re—use of historic buildings. In
1972 he spearheaded the restoration of a derelict building in Clerkenwell as one
of the country's first craft workshops; and in 1974 with two partners he started
Camden Lock, now one of London's top tourist attractions. He has repeated this
success at many other locations, notably Spitalfields Market in the City of London.
He acts as a regeneration advisor across the country, is former Chairman of the
London Safer Cities Initiative, and is a Director and Member of many other voluntary
bodies. He sat on English Heritage's Working Group 5 inputting to the recent review
"Power of the Place: the Future of the Historic Environment," and recently worked
with the same organisation advising on the potential re—use of historic buildings
in Calcutta.
Eric brought USM to Trinity Buoy Wharf after winning an LDDC development/management
competition to develop a centre for arts and creative activity. This is where
he pioneered Container CityTM, the idea of converting shipping containers into
attractive, practical and affordable buildings with a wide variety uses, and continues
to develop the concept, design and implementation of this novel form of construction.
Scott Taylor
Chief Executive
Glasgow City Marketing Bureau
Glasgow, Scotland
Scott Tayloris Chief Executive of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (GCMB), which
is responsible for the brand, Glasgow: Scotland with style. The Bureau is engaged in national and international activity including marketing
& public relations; convention sales, event sales, hotel reservations, airline
route development, meetings and incentives sales; event creation, attraction,
management and marketing; conference and event accommodation bookings. A graduate of Strathclyde University, Scott’s career spans both the marketing
and tourism industries. He has held a number of directorships in Glasgow and is chair of the Strategic
Major Events Forum for the city.
He is a Council Director of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and a member on its Board
of Management, a member of the Board of Management of Central College, a member
of the Shadow Board of the City of Glasgow College, and was previously Chair of
the Greater Glasgow Hotels’ Association.
GCMB awards include:
Best UK Convention Bureau 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Best Sports Marketing City 2010
Marketing Excellence Award Scotland for PR 2007
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Bjarne Winterberg
Architect/Urban Planner
Ramboll
Copenhagen, Denmark
