Jeremy Németh, assistant professor, Planning and Design and director of the Master of Urban Design program, was invited to present his work at the Public Open Space in the Sustainable City conference and workshop at the Technion Institute and Ben-Gurion University in Israel. The workshop brought together top researchers in planning, design, landscape, anthropology and sociology to ask how we can create better public spaces, those at once more just, safe, vibrant and environmentally responsive. Jeremy presented three papers at the workshop, one on technology and the city, another on social justice in public space, and a third on opportunities for vacant land in the city. The workshop resulted in a set of principles for public space design and planning that will be vetted further at upcoming AESOP and ACSP conferences with the goal of producing a manuscript on the subject in late 2012.