Exploring the Importance of Community in Addressing Social Issues

Eric Higbee is a landscape architect and writer who teaches university courses on community engagement at the University of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture. He works on community design and planning projects through his award-winning landscape architecture practice, Convene.

Today, Eric joins Tiffany to discuss the importance of community engagement, why attempts at this kind of engagement often fail, and how to succeed at it.

• Read more from Eric in his Substack, The Answer is Community

• Convene (site)

• Local Recommendations:

  • Third Place Books

  • Café Vitta

  • UpGarden

  • Columbia City Business District

• Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram)

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