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Catalysts hubs as a pathway for regenerative development: What is regenerative development?’ Let’s start with a vision inspired by Bill
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A model for cooperative community development: When you hear about models for a better society, it is often
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The rise of mutual stakeholding: When it comes to understanding what humanity needs to thrive, it may
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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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A collection of terms associated with co-created change: When explaining the movement to evolve how we develop and steward the
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Community ownership in real estate finally coming to the masses: Why hasn’t there been mass community ownership in real estate development before?
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‘Emergence’ is the ‘why’ of collective impact: What is the why behind collective impact? Yes, by definition, collective impact
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Enabling joy, bliss, flow, ecstasis in our communities: Joy, bliss, flow… these are often words used to describe one’s personal
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A new era of crowdsourced real estate development is upon us: The problem: Real estate development has one of the worst reputations in
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Why Tactical Urbanism is key to revitalizing cities: Tactical Urbanism is a fundamental placemaking tool for including citizens in shaping
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Does crowdsourcing places result in better design?: “Never ask the consumer about the future. You can ask them what
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Fine art = revitalization; commercial art = gentrification?: Many of us know the story: Artists and creatives move into a
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Crowdsourced resource for innovative ‘legacy city’ placemaking: While cities that lost more than 50% of their population since their
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‘Innovation Districts’ are the heart of our economic growth: Since this blog’s first articles in 2003, the vision has been about
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Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for long-term change: See updated version of this article here. Why wait for neighborhood change
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Learning from the Burning Man principles in our cities: This is the ultimate demonstration of crowdsourced placemaking in the world: 70,000
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Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent: Ever wish there was a single graphic that effectively summarized the benefits
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WalkUP Wake-Up Call’ report a model for walkability: We know there’s a demand for walkable communities, but what about the
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Fundrise pioneers crowd-invested placemaking: Just seven months ago we were outlining the inevitability of crowd-invested placemaking.
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The greenest office building in the world: Forget LEED certification, the standard for green building, the folks behind this
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What emerging generations really want: A piazza: As the 1600+ entries in this blog provide evidence for, emerging generations
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How the triple-bottom-line will save a town’s economy: What’s happening in Bristol, Connecticut (pop. 61,000), home of ESPN, is pretty