Peter Kageyama
Urbanist and bestselling author Peter Kageyama shows how cities thrive through love, fun, and emotional engagement.
Why book Peter Kageyama for your next event
- Gain actionable placemaking strategies that use emotion and creativity to revitalize neighborhoods and boost civic engagement.
- Unlock the power of emotional infrastructure to solve urban challenges like social isolation, crime and disengagement.
- Bestselling author of four acclaimed books, including For the Love of Cities, a Top 10 urban planning title.
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Designing Cities People Actually Love
Discover how emotional engagement transforms cities. Bestselling author and urbanist Peter Kageyama delivers inspiring keynotes on creating lovable, resilient places through small, powerful and human-centered design, proven to combat crime, isolation and disengagement. Perfect for cities, planners and organizations seeking people-first innovation.
Keynote Speaker Peter Kageyama is a globally recognized urbanist, thought leader and bestselling author whose work has revolutionized how we think about cities, communities and the emotional connections we form with the places we live. Known for his groundbreaking book For the Love of Cities, a Top 10 title in Urban Planning and Development, Peter brings a fresh, human-centered approach to the challenges organizations and communities face in the modern world.
Peter’s keynotes focus on the concept of emotional infrastructure, the idea that cities thrive not only through policy and planning but through love, creativity and meaningful engagement with citizens. He provides practical, scalable tools that organizations, municipalities and planners can use to ignite community pride, foster connection and build more lovable and resilient places.
As a former Senior Advisor to the Alliance for Innovation and an Ambassador for America in Bloom, Peter is uniquely positioned to help audiences understand how small, cost-effective actions can drive transformative impact. Whether you’re tackling disengagement, gentrification or social isolation, his keynotes deliver insights that are both visionary and immediately actionable.
If you want your event to inspire leaders to rethink urban innovation and connect people to place, book Peter Kageyama for your event. His message resonates with city leaders, developers, architects and anyone invested in making places people love.
Keynotes
Keynote by Peter Kageyama:
Transforming Cities Through Arts, Culture and People
Many organizations struggle to ignite emotional connections between people and the places they live and work. That’s where keynotes by Peter Kageyama provide powerful, actionable solutions. As a leading voice in placemaking and civic innovation, Peter shows how arts, culture and even infrastructure influence how we feel about our cities. His keynotes reveal how small, inexpensive and creative actions can inspire residents to fall in love with their communities again, turning passive citizens into passionate advocates.
Whether you’re a city leader, nonprofit or corporate stakeholder, Peter helps you build engaged, resilient communities without massive budgets. Book Peter Kageyama for your event and discover how to turn emotional connection into real civic change, one little act of love at a time.
Audience takeaways:
Learn how to build stronger emotional connections between people and their communities
Discover low-cost, high-impact ways to boost civic pride and engagement
Understand the hidden role of arts, culture and infrastructure in placemaking
Peter Kageyama: For the Love of Cities
Why book Peter Kageyama for your next event
