Community Building Archive
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Co-creating places start with collecting stories, sensemaking: A community’s health is often measured by explicit outcomes (e.g. income, jobs,
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Young adults, community building, lead downtown revitalization: Let’s try something different in this post. Because I can’t find something
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Change agents revitalize a block as they revitalize a home to live in: As is repeated often on this site, it often takes only one
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Crowdsourcing placemaking in Portland, Maine: When communities that want change in their built environment have the leadership,
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Diversity, crowds key to evolving communities: Sure, our instincts tell us diversity and crowds lead to a greater
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Truly getting to know places when traveling: There’s little doubt that there’s no more effective way to understand the
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Sense of community rises in down economy: It’s a fairly common phenomenon, when things are bad, people seek camaraderie.
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Australia town uses Facebook to revitalize: What better way to follow How Facebook can help build better places
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How Facebook can help build better places: Yes, it’s no coincidence that the founders of Facebook are of the
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Social business, microfinance + crowdsourcing: Inspired after listening to Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, founder of
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Local fashion meets neighborhood pride: No one in their creative right mind (no pun intended) would wear
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Social network bilingual’ a rising skill in creative communities: First, the definition of bilingual – communicating in two languages fluently, or
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What do ‘viral loops’ have to do with communities worth billions?: First of all, what’s a viral loop? Viral comes from viral marketing
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Having fun connecting with people over food, play and making an impact: There are many of us who feel that food, play and contributing
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How does your city stack up among ‘America’s Most Romantic’?: Some cities have that intangible quality that sets them apart. I think
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When building community, focus on the content, not the process: You’ve been to those evening neighborhood meetings… lots of talk about resistance
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Social responsibility a boon to local neighborhoods: How valued is the word local in the modern economy? A lot.
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Community vs money? Is it really that simple?: Balancing a sense of community vs. financial wealth isn’t a known inversely
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Top 10 ways to build a modern sense of community: A common question is how does one build a sense of community?
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Face-face social networking on the rise in condos: We all know emerging populations are migrating to social networking websites by
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The first VIBE beta community meets in DC: Last night, 14 people – Lisa, Angela, Christian, Mike, Sarah, Joey, Justin,
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Reader Q&A: “Can you give sources for your photos? I always love ’em and want to follow up.”: Let’s do one better. Why don’t we all pool our most inspiring
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Beta community designs a neighborhood their way in Germany: We recently answered the question How can a City establish a ‘beta
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How to establish your own beta community: There’s a key neighborhood street block in your downtown that could be
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A little help establishing a sense of community where there is little: It’s not uncommon for many of the residents of a neighborhood not
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Downtowns can learn from creatives fleeing MySpace as well: The bad news is, once a place is on an irreversible track
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“Welcome, we are building an inclusive community”: That’s the official sign you’ll see in sixty-eight cities across 28 states
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Building community among main street business owners: Few elements define the character of a neighborhood better than the main
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The physics of relationships… in cooltowns: I’m delving into sensitive material here, but since the heart of community
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New Orleans’ French Quarter spared: Considered one of the most beautiful (and active, being a focal point
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