“The Emotional Infrastructure of Places” Distills Essence of What Makes Certain Cities So Beloved
Urbanist Peter Kageyama’s new book tackles what’s next in placemaking strategies and explores the emotional components that are essential for communities to thrive today
St. Petersburg, Fla. – (October 7, 2019) – Urbanist Peter Kageyama, the “City Love Guy,” has released his third book in a trilogy that explores the importance of love and emotional engagement with our places. “The Emotional Infrastructure of Places” examines the ecosystem that “co-creators” - people who love their communities – inhabit, and how supporting them and their work can engender connected, emotionally engaged, and thriving places.
“We’re having a national conversation right now about the need to modernize or build our infrastructure,” said Kageyama. “My hope is that we don’t just rush to invest in infrastructure that meets the most obvious needs, but that we look at the psychological and emotional impact of all this infrastructure we need to build. We live with infrastructure for a long time, and it is only over time that the emergent qualities of that infrastructure manifest. We need to be thinking about and planning for those long-term effects.”
“The Emotional Infrastructure of Places” discusses how the smallest things can be used to solve the biggest problems; how solving the problems closest to us creates the possibility of solving intractable problems such as transportation, gentrification and social equity.