Category Archives: Solutions

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

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 21, 2012

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”

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 19, 2012

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

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 16, 2012

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

By Jacob Smith | Published: 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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Participation By Design: Twitter-government … Can Micro-Participation Stimulate Public Engagement?

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 13, 2012

This post, by guest blogger Jennifer Evans-Cowley, is the first in a month-long series on the 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, art-based [...]

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Engaging the Unengaged and Revitalizing Vacant Properties

By Jacob Smith | Published: February 22, 2012

On June 21, we’ll be collaborating on a “vacant properties” training project as part of the 2012 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference in New Orleans. It’s a great team, including Sarah Reginelli (a planner with the City of Albany, NY), Deenah Loeb (the executive director of the City Parks Association in Philadelphia), Jeff Debruyn (of the [...]

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