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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: August 19, 2011

EngagingCities reviews IBM’s new city modeling tool, Systems Dynamics for Smarter Cities, concluding that it “offers a very robust model for exploring outcomes and planning beyond immediate and obvious results,” but also noting the importance of a complementary engagement strategy. Rob Goodspeed, also reflecting on the new IBM tool, posted some ruminations on the use [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: August 11, 2011

Between presentations at the White House and the Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary gala (we’ll blog about both of these soon), tons of amazing projects (we’ve got a team in the New River Valley of rural southwestern Virginia at this very moment), and just the general zaniness of summer we’ve got quite a backlog of great [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: April 19, 2011

FutureGov has a really nice overview of Planning 2.0 concepts and tools (thanks to Engaging Cities for the link). Engaging Cities posted the slide deck from their “What’s Next for Planning Technology” panel at the APA conference, and it’s worth a look if you didn’t make the session. Their ten: text messaging, social media, mobile [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: March 30, 2011

I had a week off because of a few conferences in Washington, D.C. (including the terrific Nonprofit Technology Conference) and then an unplanned week away from the office as a raging wildfire threatened my town (we learned some great lessons about communication, community, and social media – I’ll blog about that separately), but I’m back [...]

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PlaceMatters Weekly Blog Roundup: August 28, 2010

The National Coalition for Dialogue Deliberation reports on the Portland City Council’s new “Public Involvement Principles.” Next American City argues that technology in public participation is just a means to an end: you still have to get the process right. countably infinite reflects on the tension between the notion of planning technologically-based smart, green cities [...]

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