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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS

Barrett & Greene

And they often tell us (usually off the record) that it’s the mayors, councilmembers, governors and legislators who stand in their way. But when elected officials do so, they are missing the idea that people trust candor. As we wrote in Route Fifty in February, “People mistrust what they don’t understand.

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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

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. it's a kind of contradiction as discussed in Planning the Capitalist City , where planners have to mediate between capital and the democratic impulse. Planners are the classic example of boundary spanners.

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Difficultly of fomenting institutional change not just a problem for minorities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plus to be fair to elected officials even in the best circumstances change takes a long time. 5) make recommendations on elements like a Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee and sub-committees for political districts that were practical, and "opportunities for appointments" by elected officials. Build on it. (4)