Peter Kageyama is the author of For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places and the follow up, Love Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places.

Peter is an internationally sought-after community development consultant and grassroots engagement strategist who speaks all over the world about bottom-up community development and the amazing people who are making change happen. He is the former President of Creative Tampa Bay, a grassroots community change organization and the co-founder of the Creative Cities Summit, an interdisciplinary conference that brings citizens and practitioners together around the big idea of ‘the city.’

Peter is a Senior Fellow with the Alliance for Innovation, a national network of city leaders that is dedicated to improving the practice of local government and is a special adviser to America In Bloom.

What makes cities lovable?

Why do we connect emotionally with some places and not others? And why does that matter?

Come join Peter and the ICF Institute as we look to tackle these questions!

A book signing will follow the keynote.

For more information please contat Nick Plouck at nplouck@dublin.oh.us

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