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Beyond Consumption: Enabling Participation for Livable Cities
In Public Space We Trust Public Design Festival, 2009I wrote The Enabling City, a toolkit on social innovation for urban sustainability and participatory governance, in the early days of green consumerism's ascendance to popularity. It was an interesting, if deeply troubling, time. Limited-edition designer tote bags were waging war... [read more]
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“I agree that biking seems to be going mainstream. Yet, I - like you - live in a city/region that seems to emphasize this (Seattle). I hope our perception is not "rose-colored" just because our daily lives see many bicyclists (i.e. it is our personal social norm). To get past preaching to the cycling crowd the idea is to mainstream biking as a norm for running errands, getting to ...”
“I'm not sure I buy this. Correlation does not equal causation.Having not seen the study, it seems like there are numerous opoprtunities for extra variables. The first one that jumps out is how are we maintaining a consistent quality of contractor/tradesmen/construction manager across all of these (or any of these) examples? Are they union projects or private projects? Are they contractors working ...”