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Catie Marron

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New York, The United States
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Marron’s career has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism,
public service, and book publishing. Catie Marron is the creator and editor of two
anthologies published by HarperCollins which explore the value and significance
of urban public spaces: City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of
Squares Around the World
(2016), and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts (2013).
She is currently working on a third book for HarperCollins, which centers on how
gardens and the process of their creation enrich lives.

She is a trustee and Chair Emeritus of The New York Public Library, where she
was Chairman of the Board from 2004 to 2011. Marron is also a trustee of Friends
of the High Line, where she was also Board Chair,
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“spaces that at first may appear to reflect a simple condition are much more complex when the actions of individuals and groups are factored in. These unique patterns of movement through space can and should guide the architecture we build to serve them. For space only becomes truly public when people recognize it and utilize it as such. Great public space cannot be built as much as curated; it is architecture's responsibility to craft space in response to specific needs and unique practices. . . . it is not the space itself that is meaningful; it is the way space facilitates diversity, interaction, and new negotiations that makes it meaningful [David Adjaye, "Djemaa El-Fnaa, Marrakech: Engaging with Complexity and Diversity"].”
Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

“Feeling in the middle of things, at the place to and from which streets flow, where people come not to escape the city but to be inside it: This us usually what defines a successful square. It is a space around which the rest of a neighborhood or town or city tends to be organized [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].”
Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

“a square is not just about light, air, proportion, and people. It must also give form to some shared notion of civic identity. [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].”
Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

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