Project for Public Spaces
Fred Kent is the founder and president of the non profit organization Project
for Public Spaces. The organization is dedicated to creating public places that
foster communities. He 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. In 1968,
Fred founded the Academy for Black and Latin Education (ABLE), a street academy
for high school dropouts. He was Program Director for the Mayor's Council on the
Environment in New York City under Mayor John Lindsay. In 1970, and again in 1990,
Fred was the coordinator and chairman of New York City's Earth Days. Fred is also
an avid photographer, shooting thousands photographs of public spaces and their
users. He attended Columbia University where he studied Geography, Economics,
Transportation, Planning, and Anthropology.
Speech: The value of place making
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