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PlaceSpeak is Bringing Public Consultation Online

July 18, 2011 by Yuri Artibise
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Web 2.0 apps have been popping up in cities throughout North America over the past few years. Sites like SeeClickFix and FixMyStreet Canada are enabling city residents to report non-emergency issues like potholes and graffiti through web and mobile applications. They also allow residents to track the response to their reported... [read more]

Using Web Apps to Create a Culture of Civic Engagement

July 14, 2011 by This Big City
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Last November, the second annual Open Cities conference was held in Washington D.C. at the headquarters for the American Institute for Architects. Hosted by Next American City with support from the Rockefeller foundation, the conference brought together a group of urban planning and policy practitioners, technologists and... [read more]

Creating a Culture of Civic Engagement

November 15, 2010 by Next American City
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The Give a Minute Chicago website. Credit: CEO for Cities/Local ProjectsLast week, the second annual Open Cities conference got underway in Washington D.C. at the headquarters for the American Institute for Architects. Hosted by Next American City with support from the Rockefeller foundation, the conference brought together a group of... [read more]

A Spark of Life Confirms the Death of the Civic Experience

June 17, 2009 by Alex Ihnen
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"It's not like we had 30 years of experience of doing this."And that's the problem. In short, a St. Louis subdivision has no idea how to govern itself because it's never had to. According to the story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, subdivision bylaws written in the 1970's as so poor as to leave many questions unanswered. When an... [read more]

The New Urban Renewal?

June 15, 2009 by James Withrow
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Tim Murphy at the Chicago Maroon published an article in Grey City a couple weeks ago called The New Urban Renewal.  I'm quoted in it thusly:"Often in the corporate world, whenever management wants to do something that wouldn’t be good for [the rest of the company], they say ‘Oh, we just need to communicate about it,’” said James... [read more]

Social media and community engagement

May 17, 2009 by Wendy Waters
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Many popular culture analysts noted the decline of community in the later decades of the 20th century.  People seemed to “tune out” and become uninterested in world events, local politics and issues that affected their daily lives.  Some blamed television, others the double-income family combined with longer commutes that left... [read more]