Pete Quily directed me to a recent story in the Georgia Straight about West Vancouver’s opening up of Council Correspondence (this is their correspondence page for 2010) on their website. Charlie Smith, the author of the article, calls for all Metro Vancouver municipalities to follow suit, in making their interactions with everyone open and available. [...]
…and 48 hours later, Northern Voice for 2010 is a wrap. Thanks to the hard work of all the organizers, who pulled off an incredible conference once again. This was my first year as a non-Moosecamp speaker. It was also the it was held not during reading week (owing to the Vancouver Olympics) and in [...]
Northern Voice is just about upon us! As usual, the schedule is absolutely packed with unbelievable sessions…too many to choose from, even! I’m also interested to see how the dynamic changes as a result of there being no MooseCamp day and the fact that the Atrium will be programmed with the Social Media Buffet. It’s [...]
On May 7th, I’ll be moderating a panel bridging two worlds of practice that I think are going to be increasingly interested in each other: urban planning and online publishing.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Scholarship, Technology
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Some reflections and thoughts on my presentation on “Planning in the Age of Participation,” my presentation at the 2010 SCARP Symposium on Resilience.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Scholarship, Technology
| tagged as canadian association of planning students, caps conference, guelph, public participation, rural planning, tower revitalization, university of guelph, urban planning
Phewf! Between all the running around with the start of the second semester of school, the first month of the year is already week-old history, and I’ve just wrapped up one of the major milestones for this year: the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS-ACEAU) annual conference at the University of Guelph, hosted by students of [...]
I will be speaking at SCARP’s 2nd annual symposium on “Planning for Resilience” on March 5th, 2010. The panel is being presented by PlanningPool, and is on the topic of how groups in planning are taking up the tremendous communication and engagement opportunity represented by blogs and other digital media.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Ideas, Media - explicit
| tagged as adopt a stop, city of vancouver, geeking, hackathon, hacking, open data, processing, transit community, vancouver, vancouver archives
“Adopt-a-Stop” is our idea for a web and mobile-enabled application for community members to find and share information about the five-block radius around each bus stop. As the name alludes, the service will encourage and empower individual community members to garden and curate and take ownership of an individual Facebook-style page for each stop.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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| tagged as britannia, commercial drive, design studio, scale model, scarp, Scholarship, urban design, urban design theory, vancouver
Live on The Drive? Hung out there? Ever walk its streets and think, “This place is perfect! NEVER CHANGE!” Or, conversely, “Gawds, this place is awful, won’t someone please do something about it?” (Doubtful, but just covering the bases…) This range of reactions is exactly what me and my class have been going through, every [...]
Twitter’s model and community are amazing resources to take advantage of, but they’re more important to me as a proof of concept of the value of mobile and ubiquitous web applications. As I implied in my follow-up to John Bollwitt’s tweet, I think we need to ask some serious questions about whether we want our transit system’s information distribution and notification service reliant on a Silicon Valley-based startup with no readily discernible business plan.
