CFP affiliated researcher meets with US Vice President Harris
CFP Research Affiliate Professor Vikas Mehta met with US Vice President Harris to discuss public space as infrastructure. Professor Mehta pointed out the importance of public space and its social infrastructure, finding strong agreement from the Vice President.
April 30 met US Vice President Kamala Harris with a group of experts on public transit and public space as a key component of an infrastructure package currently proposed by the Biden administration. One of them was Vikas Mehta , Professor of Urbanism at the University of Cincinnati and Affiliated Researcher at the KTH Centre for the Future of Places.
“Good transit equals vibrant communities,” Harris told the roundtable assembled at the University of Cincinnati. “So if we think about it in terms of an investment in public transit, it is an investment in job creation, it is an investment in improving communities, it is an investment increasing access to opportunity.”
Professor Mehta emphasized that the transportation network needs to be seen as including public spaces, including streets and sidewalks.