This is an extremely long post mashing together Beth Simone Noveck’s chapter on collaborative democracy with Judith Innes and David Booher’s recent book on collaborative rationality in planning called “Planning with Complexity,” mixed liberally with my own thoughts on community management in open source software. A lot of hand-waving, block quotes, and thinking out-loud.
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countably infinite is the online writing space of Karen Fung, social media ponderer and student of urban & transportation planning at UBC.
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Recent writing
- #PlannersTweet: Learning how planning and planners use(s) Twitter
- A little more about #myresearch
- Anonymity and contempt in public engagement: correlation, not causation?
- Transit Pet Peeves: One person’s contest, another person’s social inclusion setback
- Complexifiers and Simplifiers: some necessary nuance
Reactions on this site…
- Adam Fitch on Awkward as Planned: short-term pain for long-term Olympic Legacy?
- A little more about #myresearch on Twitter in Transit, take 1, at BarCamp Vancouver 2009
- Jenny Ann Fraser on Transit Pet Peeves: One person’s contest, another person’s social inclusion setback
- AG on Will the smarter city be built by love?
- Colleen Hardwick on Does pseudonymity matter for engagement in planning?
