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Hilo, HI: First Crowdsourced Placemaking Municipality

January 12, 2012 by Neil Takemoto
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Crowdsourced placemaking had been a private sector sponsored success in Bristol, CT, but what about coming from the public sector? To many, public sector sponsored crowdsourced placemaking sounded rather impossible, with such arguments as: - A municipality doesn’t do placemaking, or implementation, the private sector does. It’s the... [read more]

Town Crowdsources Green Solutions

July 14, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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There’s a plethora of books on crowdsourcing out there, but only one documents the crowdsourcing of a city’s entire downtown. In other words, it shows you how far crowdsourcing has come along, from T-shirts to now cities. Here’s the full excerpt from the book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing by Aliza Sherman, published July... [read more]

Crowdsourcing a ‘Better Block’ in Memphis

May 23, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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A New Face for an Old Broad from Josh Beckemeyer on Vimeo.Inspired by the Better Block Program in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas that crowdsourced a weekend demonstration of what a downtown street should be like, Memphis hosted their own last November. Located on Broad Street, the event, “A New Face for Old Broad“, attracting 13,000 attendees... [read more]

Bristol crowdsources piazza into downtown plan

May 12, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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People often ask, “How does crowdsourced placemaking work in the real world?“ This is best answered via real world examples, such as the piazza in Bristol, Connecticut (pop. 61,000) . As you can see in the December 30, 2010 story, “Blending online and face-face crowdsourcing“, the Bristol survey was just launching, with “A plaza/piazza”... [read more]

Crowd-Sourcing Design: What Would You Change About NYC?

April 12, 2011 by the polis blog
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It began as a typical design competition. The Institute for Urban Design in New York would select five sites – one in each borough – and issue a call for proposals to architects and planners. Winners would be featured at the first annual Urban Design Week, a public festival that the Institute is planning, along with other partners, for... [read more]

The state of crowdsourced placemaking

February 13, 2011 by Neil Takemoto
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Being that there really is no other resource on crowdsourced placemaking, here’s a brief update on how the field is progressing, with an invite for others to contribute their own updates. Permanent projects. - We’ve got a whammy of a real project in Bristol, Connecticut, pop. 61,000… a $1.2 billion downtown revitalization where the crowd... [read more]

Crowdsourced placemaking FAQ

December 10, 2010 by Neil Takemoto
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Crowdsourced placemaking is a fun, exciting way people can help shape the kinds of places in their neighborhoods they’ll be passionate for. To understand what crowdsourced placemaking is in depth, let’s answer the most commonly asked questions… What is a one-sentence definition of crowdsourced placemaking? The act of outsourcing tasks,... [read more]

"What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York"

November 25, 2010 by the polis blog
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"[...] the hundreds of millions of calls also represent a huge pool of data to be collected, parsed, and transformed into usable intelligence. Perhaps even more exciting is the new ecosystem of startups, inspired by New York’s success and empowered by 21st-century technology, that has emerged to create innovative ways for residents to... [read more]

Crowdsourcing green cities more ways than one

July 8, 2010 by Neil Takemoto
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Wouldn’t cities be a lot greener (literally and figuratively) with more trees and solar energy? Those are two very big ticket items, and exactly the kind of scope where purpose-driven collaborative crowdsourcing is most effective. One Block Off the Grid tackles the solar energy Catch 22 where solar panels are too expensive to install for... [read more]

‘Creatives’ as change agents, FAQ

March 11, 2010 by Neil Takemoto
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Since the vision of this site is ‘crowdsourcing places for creatives’, it may be beneficial to further clarify what the word ‘creatives’ means, as it relates to this site. What is this site’s definition of creatives? It’s stated in detail here, but it is essentially the cultural creatives, creative class and the renaissance generation (... [read more]

Imagine a neighborhood of creative buildings

February 18, 2010 by Neil Takemoto
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If you think it’d be cool to live in a building like this, you’re probably not alone. The building plays music through its instrumental drainpipes when it rains, and is part of the a series of whimsical courtyard buildings in Dresden, Germany known as the KunsthofPassage. However, why don’t we see more creative, humanistic buildings... [read more]

Collaborative crowdsourcing

October 6, 2009 by Neil Takemoto
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Because crowdsourcing is defined as outsourcing a task to a community using an open call, you don’t necessarily need a community to start with.  American Idol didn’t have a defined community to start, but crowdsourcing helped it create one. With crowdsourced placemaking, it’s more relevant to use a task to help build a... [read more]