Lexington is the second largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is located in the famed Bluegrass region, a geography that has helped the city earn a reputation as the “Horse Capital of the World.” As one of the most recent cities to join the Reimagining the Civic Commons network, Lexington hosted Civic Commons Studio #8 in October. Our studios gather practitioners, as well as national thought leaders, for three days of on-the-ground tours and conversations on the opportunities and challenges of public space work. The goal: foster the capacity of practitioners and leaders in our network to make innovative investments of time and money in public space, to drive transformative change across the nation.
In Lexington, we saw a notable amount of innovative public space work, both completed and moving through the pipeline.