Building a Better Bend Presents “Is Bend a Happy City?”
May 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
$10
Bend is planning transformative projects that will reshape the “heart” of our community—from the future of the City Hall site and the Bend Central District (BCD), to the new Korpine site near Crux. How could public-private partnerships integrate public spaces with private creativity to help Bend “build Happy”?
We are thrilled to welcome Mitchell Reardon, the award-winning Director of Urban Planning at Happy Cities, a research and design consultancy based in Vancouver Canada. With a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Stockholm University, Mitchell specializes in healthy urban design and research.
Grounded in the Happy Cities wellbeing framework, Mitchell and his team have helped spark smiles and transform unloved spaces into dynamic places of connection from Park City Utah to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. His insights have been featured in Wired, Next City, and BBC World.
