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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

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Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue. For instance, this could include helping people visualise projects that includes urban planning and new playgrounds.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A future Mayor of DC, Marion Barry intended to get a PhD but instead came to DC to set up a chapter on civil rights organizing for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bus Fare Boycott, 1965/1966. One of his campaigns was a bus boycott in response to a fare increase (" Marion Barry Leads Bus Boycott ," WETA/PBS).