Michael Mehaffy
Michael Mehaffy, Ph.D. is Director of the Future of Places Research Network based at KTH University in Stockholm, and Executive Director of the Sustasis Foundation in Portland, OR. He now works as Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Future of Places in Stockholm, partnering with UN-Habitat and others implementing the New Urban Agenda.
Public space, identity politics, and civic collaboration
All politics is local—and to that we could add, all politics is rooted in the public spaces we share at the local level.
Five takeaways from the 2018 World Urban Forum
Implementing the New Urban Agenda will be hard work—public spaces, including streets, provide the tissue connecting people to the benefits of cities.