Petra Marko is an architect and urban designer shaping and promoting livable cities and inclusive public spaces. She is co-founder of Marko&Placemakers, working between placemaking, green urbanism and design advocacy. She has led public realm, High Streets and town centre regeneration projects and managed complex residential schemes on small sites in central London. Petra is a member of the Westminster Council’s Design Review Panel and sat on UK’s National Infrastructure Commission Young Professionals Panel providing fresh thinking to the NIC’s work in long term infrastructure planning. Petra taught and led design think tanks at The London School of Architecture exploring the physical, social, political, cultural and economic dimensions of cycling. She grew up in Bratislava, studied architecture in Vienna and Stockholm and Creative Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London. Petra regularly writes and speaks at international forums, promoting car-free walkable neighbourhoods and authored Meanwhile City, a best practice guide on temporary interventions.