C4 Form Follows Fun
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This document summarizes a panel discussion on creating vibrant communities. The panelists discussed how their communities coordinate infrastructure upgrades to improve quality of life, how they identify target demographics and attract people, and how they allow community groups to provide fun activities and temporary art installations. The moderator then asked how Boston supports successful neighborhoods through public and private partnerships and the role of its Main Street program in driving livable and fun communities.
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C4 Form Follows Fun
- 1. FORM FOLLOWS FUN How Planners Can Enable Vibrant Communities that People Love #C4: Thursday
- 3. Our Panelists • Mark K. McGovern, Director of Community Services, Town of West Hartford (CT) • Chris Ortwein, Director of Retail Sq. Ft, Town Green District, New Haven (CT) • Delpha Very, Director of Economic & Community Development, Town of Putnam (CT) • Stephen R. Gilman, Program Director, Boston Main Streets (MA) • Moderated by David V. Sousa, AICP, RLA, Senior Planner and Landscape Architect, CDM Smith (CT)
- 4. How does your community coordinate upgrades to its infrastructure to ensure that they are place-based, contextual and result in improved quality of life?
- 5. Town of West Hartford
- 8. How do you know WHO you are working to attract? And what are you doing in programming and entrepreneurial attraction to create a people-centered place?
- 17. Has your community sanctioned community-based groups to provide fun activities – or to use the public realm as their canvas for temporary or performance art?
- 18. Downtown Putnam
- 20. Pop-Up Wedding at Victoria Station Café First Fridays 1940’s Celebration
- 22. What are the common denominators of successful neighborhoods in Boston? What are the roles of the public and private sectors in driving livable and fun communities?
- 23. The first urban Main Street program in the country. Established 1995 to build vibrant commercial districts, through design, technical & financial support. 20 Neighborhood-based nonprofit Main Street organizations.
- 30. Willimantic
- 32. New Milford
- 33. New Haven
- 34. Torrington
- 36. New Britain
- 38. Inspiring great Connecticut downtowns, Main Street by Main Street. info@ctmainstreet.org