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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

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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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, in theory (although it's not longer really true), Montgomery and Prince George's Counties have a coordinated planning system created by the Maryland State Legislature in the 1920s to complement the efforts of the then named National Capital Parks and Planning Commission operating in Washington, DC. They do good things.

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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

News, updates, and future plans are often the topics of posts. Steve also has two master’s degrees in urban planning and economics. He coordinates all the activities of the city under the supervision of the mayor. Steve Pinkerton : He has been the city manager of Manteca, California since 2008.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion.

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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).