ULI North Florida - Member Networking Breakfast: Shaping Our Everyday

When

2021-07-29
2021-07-29T09:00:00 - 2021-07-29T10:00:00
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    Where

    JRTC - Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center Will open in a new window 100 Lavilla Center DR Jacksonville, FL 32204-1549 UNITED STATES

    Pricing

    Pricing Members Non-Members
    Private $25.00 N/A
    Public/Academic/Nonprofit $25.00 N/A
    Retired $25.00 N/A
    Student $25.00 N/A
    Under Age 35 $25.00 N/A
    Shaping our Everyday: Health and Well-being in Third Places
     
    Christina N. Contreras, ULI/Martin Bucksbaum Senior Visiting Fellow and Principal & Founder of Living Ecology Studio, is using a well-being framework to explore how privately-owned and managed ‘third places’ improve human and community health and well-being outcomes. Third places are places outside of home and work (such as stores and restaurants) where people enjoy spending time with others. They are essential to creating healthy and vibrant communities. Christina will share inspiring examples of third places from around the country that are enhancing cultural and political equity, strengthening urban resilience, and building social cohesion. Tools and strategies for replicating these approaches will also be discussed. Additionally, Christina will share how a well-being framework, which centers equity and measures how people perceive the quality of their lives, can provide a method for the real estate industry to better understand and deliver on what matters most to individuals and communities.
     
    Date:
    Thursday, July 29
     
    Time:
    9:00am - 10:00am
     
    Location:
    JRTC 3rd Floor Boardroom
    100 LaVilla Center Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32204 
     
    Cost:
    $25 - Member-Only 

    JRTC - Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center 100 Lavilla Center DR Jacksonville, FL 32204-1549 UNITED STATES

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    Speaker

    Christina Contreras

    Living Ecology Studio

    Christina N. Contreras, LEED AP –Principal & Founder, Living Ecology Studio. Christina N. Contreras is the Principal &Founder of Living Ecology Studio. She is the Urban Land Institute (ULI)/Martin Bucksbaum Senior Visiting Fellow exploring how third-places improve our health and well-being. Christina is an urban planner, landscape designer, and community involvement specialist. She is devoted to the design of urban landscapes because she cares deeply about communities and the planet and recognizes the tremendous power the built environment has on our lives and ecosystems. Christina offers a unique perspective as her Native American and Mexican American heritage are not often represented in the professional fields of urban planning and landscape design. Christina is particularly interested in supporting mutually beneficial symbiotic relationships between humans and land and creating opportunities for people to connect with generations past and future through places and plants in the landscape. Christina holds a Bachelor of Science in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado, Denver.

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