Best Practices in Governance and Community Building
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Stronger Citizens, Stronger Cities: Changing Governance Through a Focus on Place
A great place is something that everybody can create. If vibrancy is people, as we argued in the last edition of Placemaking News, the only way to make a city vibrant again is to make room for more of them. Today, in the first of a two-part follow up, we will explore how Placemaking, by positioning public spaces at the heart of action-oriented community dialog, makes room both physically and philosophically by re-framing citizenship as an on-going, creative collaboration between neighbors. The result is not merely vibrancy, but equity.
To build more equitable communities, we must first bust down the silo walls that exist not just between government agencies, but around government itself. The overlap between governance and citizenship has to expand, and we've seen evidence that things are starting to shift, in cities around the world. In this emergent "Place Governance" model, officials work to facilitate collaboration between neighbors to address local challenges through Placemaking. The end result is more than any discipline-driven process could ever create: it is the feeling, amongst a group of citizens, that together they are capable of changing their community.
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To build more equitable communities, we must first bust down the silo walls that exist not just between government agencies, but around government itself. The overlap between governance and citizenship has to expand, and we've seen evidence that things are starting to shift, in cities around the world. In this emergent "Place Governance" model, officials work to facilitate collaboration between neighbors to address local challenges through Placemaking. The end result is more than any discipline-driven process could ever create: it is the feeling, amongst a group of citizens, that together they are capable of changing their community.
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