New Webinar Series – Coast to Coast: Episode 1: Public Life Has Disappeared – May 5

Posted by The Knight Foundation on May 5, 2020

COVID-19 is rapidly changing the way we think about communities and forcing us to think about new ways to build engaging places where people want to live. Innovations and new approaches are popping up across the country.

Coast to Coast, a new weekly show from Knight Foundation, will take a deep dive into cities and explore ideas and insights on building engaging communities in a time of rapid change. Each week we’ll interview innovators, thinkers and practitioners who are reimagining the future of American cities.

Join us live for the first episode of Coast to Coast. We’ll interview New York University professor and scholar Eric Klinenberg on the social implications for our communities and how we begin to think about the rebuild.

Episode 1: Public life has disappeared – what are the social implications and how can we rebuild our cities? (Tuesday, May 5, 1- 1:30 p.m. ET)

Dr. Eric Klinenberg is The Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science at NYU and a practitioner working on urban public spaces. Klinenberg most recently served as research director of Rebuild by Design. In response to COVID-19, Klinenberg has started “The Shift” series housed at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, examining the social implications of the current shifts in public life. He also wrote a New York Times op-ed on social solidarity amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Register for the Coast to Coast conversation with Eric Klinenberg on May 5 at 1 PM: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BSQRZ_DAROKyEmdC4h5PyQ

Coast to Coast will be live every Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET.