
Book Talk: Place and Placemaking
Thu, Sep 17, 2026 · 6 PM ET
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Launch event for Place and Placemaking (Routledge), the inaugural volume in the Rudy Bruner Center Debates on Urban Excellence series produced by the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning. Editors Conrad Kickert, Robert G. Shibley, and Tony Hiss moderate a discussion among contributors including Brookings fellow Tracy Hadden Loh, PlacemakingX director Ethan Kent, and Brooklyn College professor emerita Sharon Zukin, on positioning, envisioning, and communicating place amid homogenization and polarization.
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