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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

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For instance, this could include helping people visualise projects that includes urban planning and new playgrounds. By combining digital and online community spaces, people can join meetings, planning exercises, workshops, or local events from home. Integrating these tools creates hybrid engagement experiences.

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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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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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Adaptive reuse of a high school to a concert space in Portland, Oregion: Revolution Hall

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From the article: A lesson in creative thinking Neighbors had successfully campaigned to have the Kennedy School historically designated, but several attempts to find an appropriate redevelopment failed. The McMenamins, developers of hotels, brewpubs and entertainment venues in Oregon and Washington, won city approval for their proposal.

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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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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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But the district is well organized, and successfully campaigned for a more directly accessible transit station as part of a new line being developed to serve their area. Also see " Leimert Theater: Envisioning a Neighborhood Landmark ," KCET.

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Toronto the Better series: Toronto Star

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Over the next year, well draw from psychology and sociology research, best practices in urban planning and the lived experiences of Torontonians to find ways to make our city and our lives better. The new campaign takes on a more positive spin. Many readers have told me they want more uplifting, solutions-focused journalism.