The session will first frame the issue of creating great inclusive healthy places that serve as gathering spaces that tackle inequities that exist with our cites by creating opportunities to forge social connections, strengthen community bonds, and improve health equity. Public spaces are increasingly being managed by special districts and friends of organizations requiring a balancing of the interests of the rate -payers and other investors with then needs to create functioning public space. The Panel will then describe two very recent efforts by the
APA and the
Center for Active Designs that can be used as tools to increase social and health equity through public space and design management.
