zencity

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Zencity automatically collects, anonymizes, and analyzes data from a variety of public or government-run sources, including 311 tickets, comments on local news sites, public-facing social media and community groups, and comments on local government social media pages. The cities with the most positive resident sentiment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc.--should at farmers and public markets. These kinds of ideas can be extended to other public facing programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. -- " More thoughts on suburban hipness (it's really about commercial hipness generally, not urban vs. suburban) ," 2013 -- " BTMFBA Chronicles: Seattle coffee shop raises money to buy its building ," 2018 This came up in DC many years ago. Civic assets as public facing opportunities for civic engagement and promotion of democracy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

Volunteers planting a tree in 2018. It fits in with my belief that schools, libraries, parks and other public-facing units of local government can be loci for civic engagement, just like community foundations. Former Republican Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels writes a column for the Washington Post. Getty Images photo.

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