Seattle and Bilbao: What can we learn from each other?

In an urbanizing world, cities around the globe are building new, denser neighborhoods. The quality of life in expanding cities is can and should be shaped as humane places that support the well-being of individuals and society. Framework’s Lesley Bain shares some thoughts from an American perspective as she headed to Bilbao for a conference on how organizations around the world are finding innovative ways to support the creative sector.

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What is the value of sharing ideas between evolving cities?

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Transforming neighborhoods —a pattern from industrial to creative to monoculture

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The quality of the street level is critical, where public life and connections to nature create well being

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How do you center humanity in a neighborhood created from the top down?

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Seattle created the Cultural Space Agency as a needed mechanism to support cultural space

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The necessary question of what culture, whose culture are we trying to support?

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Hopes for a discussion on creative culture with people from around the world

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Recorded by Lesley Bain @Framework