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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

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Rebuilding Trust Through Community Engagement Rebuilding trust between governments and their communities will be a central theme in 2025. Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue.

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How to Effectively Plan Your Public Involvement Initiative for Transport

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From urban planning and public transportation development to local government projects, the public should always play a vital role in the decision-making process and have their voices heard. This was of great help since this was our first time developing a digital engagement campaign of this magnitude with so many features.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

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It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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mayor unveils plans to incentivize office-to-residential conversions as downtown struggles to recover ," Washington Post ) because there is nothing really special about the phenomenon. Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. I haven't written about this being discussed in a number of places like DC (" D.C.

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Transit equity day, Sunday 2/4/24, in honor of Black History Month, Rosa Parks, and the significance of transportation history to African-American History

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. -- " Black History Month and the New Jim Crow ," 2020 -- " Two ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month ," 2020 -- " African American History Month and Urban Planning ," 2019 National Archives photo of a pretty much empty bus during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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

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But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. Despite DC being run by the federal government, mostly under the oversight of racist Southern Congressman, the city's transit system was not segregated (" Black activists' post-emancipation battle for D.C.'s Ferguson ," book review).