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Katharine Peinhardt

Katherine Peinhardt, Project Reporter and Communications Associate at Project for Public Spaces, Columbia University (New York City), focuses on environmental and urban development policy, dynamics of climate change, capacity-building processes, and international sustainable development. Her background is in international environmental politics, climate change resilience-building, urban sustainability, international organizations, and international affairs.

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Community-Led Solutions in Housing Crisis

By Katharine Peinhardt, Project for Public Spaces

Eugene is charting a new path for community outreach, using its downtown areas as places to address housing challenges, head-on.

  • May 10, 2019
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Resilience Roundup: Public Spaces Fighting Climate Change

By Katharine Peinhardt, Project for Public Spaces

Public spaces are where physical and social resilience meet. Looking past levees and seawalls, and even beyond nature-based solutions to climate risks, public space designers and managers have to get people into the picture as we all come to terms with the urban impacts of climate change.

  • May 3, 2019
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Turning the Library Inside-Out

By Katharine Peinhardt, Project for Public Spaces

The library’s yard was dubbed the Reading Park, and a clear vision for the space soon came into focus — it would be where the library could reach out to Buffalo’s underserved communities, with expanded programming covering everything from literacy to nutrition.

  • July 13, 2018
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Public Spaces in an Era of Climate Change

By Katharine Peinhardt, Project for Public Spaces

Resilience is a result of connections between people, not a physical feature of a place. So, as we adapt to a changing climate, public spaces are the key to strengthening the community ties that help us bounce back from disaster.

  • June 29, 2018
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Diasporic Placemaking in Chattanooga

By Katharine Peinhardt, Project for Public Spaces

Coming to terms with the historic displacement of communities in Chattanooga, particularly of Black and Native American populations, has meant finding new ways to talk about its public spaces.

  • June 27, 2018
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