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Participation by Design: Third Graders Get a Chance to be City Planners

This post, by guest blogger Augusta Prehn, is the eleventh in a month-long series on the impressive diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, [...]

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Participation by Design: Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media

This post, by guest blogger Ethan Zuckerman, is the tenth in a month-long series on the impressive diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, [...]

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Participation by Design: How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

This post, by guest blogger Nina Simon, is the eighth in a month-long series on the impressive diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, [...]

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Participation By Design: Engaging Social Equity and Building Social Capital through Mapping Opportunity

This post, by guest blogger Jason Reece, is the fifth in a month-long series on the impressive diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, [...]

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Participation By Design: Collecting Feedback on Draft Planning Documents with “EngagingPlans”

This post, by guest blogger Chris Haller, is the fourth in a month-long series on the impressive diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, [...]

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Participation By Design: Why Collaborative Development Works in a Proprietary World

This post, by guest blogger Jeff Warren, is the third in a month-long series on the impressive diversity of participatory decision-making tools that communities can use for land use plans, transportation plans, sustainability plans, or any other type of community plan. Our guest bloggers are covering the gamut, from low-tech to high-tech, web-based to tactile, [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: March 14, 2012

The City Fix describes some examples and some of the value of participatory mapping in urban planning. Engaging Cities blogs on a similar theme, writing about the use of maps in community decision-making. The New York Times has a lengthy piece on IBM’s Smarter Cities implementation in Rio de Janeiro and IBM’s vision of a [...]

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