Rethinking New York City's Place Management Organizations with Mia Winther Tamaki (July 26, 2024)

This session, through an urban planning perspective will address the challenges that place stewards face and discuss opportunities for NYC to adopt more nimble, operationally lean, and risk-tolerant governance strategies and entities that spur tactical long-term approaches to public realm stewardship, scalable at hyperlocal and citywide levels. The session will explore how the city can look to DAOs and other decentralized, participatory governance models to help NYC and other cities around the world unlock the potential that vibrant public spaces hold for us.
Mia is a New York City-based urbanist focused on open space, open access, and the open web. With a masters in urban planning from Columbia University, she has conducted research on the surveillance of public spaces and digital infrastructure. Mia has contributed to multiple city planning projects in New York, including the Open Streets program, the FiDi Seaport Resiliency Plan, and consulting on affordable broadband projects nationwide. Currently, she is building AAPI nonprofit capacity in NYC and researching how place management organizations can better steward public spaces using decentralized governance structures and digital tools.
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