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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in planning engagements, planners have two responsibilities, simultaneously dealing with "citywide" concerns as laid out in a master or comprehensive land use plan for the community, as well as neighborhood concerns, while residents typically only take responsibility for the latter. City revival.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. OWS reached citizens in general, but also engaged the entire world in a domestic matter. The new media on which these early rallies were organized are significant because of the people that became engaged.