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Using Online Community Engagement to Empower Older Adults

Social Pinpoint

Online community engagement has truly transformed how we connect, communicate, and access information. In this article, we will explore how to combat these challenges by sharing five ways to empower online community engagement in older adults. How Should We Define ‘Older Adults’ in Our Community?

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Beyond the Exodus: California’s Urban Centres in a Remote Work Age

The Lowe Down

The dominant narrative is that neighbourhood with easy access to the outdoors or that have maintained community engagement amid the rise of working-from-home have experienced strong increases in property values. I test this narrative by analysing zip-code level home price data from the SF and LA metropolitan areas for 2019 and 2024.

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The Benefits of Digital Community Engagement for Your Ever-Growing Sports Club

Social Pinpoint

In today’s fast-paced world, digital community engagement has become a game-changer not just for government agencies looking for support with decision-making processes but for sports clubs looking to engage their members and wider sports communities beyond the game. That’s a lot of people you could engage and listen to.

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Photo Essay: After Successful Test, Porto Alegre’s João Alfredo Gets a ‘Complete Streets’ Transformation

The City Fix

In April 2019, Porto Alegre worked with WRI Brasil to implement the first segment of a tactical urbanism project that transformed a key intersection of busy João Alfredo Street, which runs through the heart of the Cidade Baixa neighborhood. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One possible tool to address the affordable housing crunch is the Community Land Trust (CLT). CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). On the Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts in the United States.” 3 (2019): 795-817.

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A Blueprint for Social Equity and Economic Prosperity — March Bonus Episode

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

On this episode, we discuss how important it is that a public space like this connects diverse populations throughout the city, and the impact that this kind of project makes on the communities that it touches. We also talk about the release of the Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan that was recently released in December 2019.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019).

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