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1 Introduction
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... Statements, recommendations, and opinions expressed are those of individual presenters and participants and are not necessarily endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the Health and Medicine Division; or the roundtable, and they should not be construed as reflecting any group consensus.
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... Placemaking refers to the work of creating livable, vibrant, or ­quality places, especially public places, and draws on community development, arts and culture, regional planning, and civic engagement, combining different disciplinary perspectives into a creative way of shaping public spaces, land use, commerce, transportation, housing, and social ­fabric. Harmful consequences of placemaking include gentrification and displacement, racial and socioeconomic exclusion, and lack of resident leader­ship.
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... Rodriguez, director of community-driven initiatives at the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, began with an acknowledgment and expression of gratitude and respect to the Lenape4 people, elders, and ancestors -- the "original placemakers and placekeepers of the place where we gather today." From 2013, Rodriguez explained, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement has provided a trusted forum for leaders from various sectors to meet and discuss opportunities for achieving better population health, including increasing life expectancy, improving quality of life, and reducing health disparities. Rodriguez shared that the roundtable's vision of a healthy and productive society that cultivates human capital and equal opportunity rests on a recognition that the positive outcomes in such a society are "shaped by interdependent social, economic, environmental, genetic, behavioral, and health care factors and will require robust national and community-level policy change and dependable resources to achieve it." Rodriguez said roundtable events have featured the relationships between the well-being of places and that of communities.
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... She said that there is increasing evidence relating to placemaking and placekeeping, and the relationships between place, health, and well-being. She defined placemaking as the "work of creating livable, vibrant, or quality places, especially public places," and she noted that it "draws upon community development, arts and culture, regional planning, civic engagement, and combining different disciplinary perspectives in a creative way." Placekeeping, she said, is the "work of stewardship that is fueled by the sweat equity of people that care for, use, and program in the most extensive use of the term programming, public spaces." Rodriguez concluded by giving an overview of the workshop agenda.


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