Landscape architect and director of the Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Ron Henderson, FASLA delivered the keynote address of the 2018 Providence Symposium. His talk on cultural landscapes included inspiration for his design of CityWalk. Henderson, with Phoebe Blake and Dan Baudouin, received the PPS Preservation Initiative Award for Community Involvement in 2017 for their decade-long dedication to the study and planning of the 8-mile pedestrian and bicycle network, currently becoming a reality through the City of Providence.