October 2009
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Wake Up, Local Government, and Supercharge Your...
It’s almost 2010, and everyone is on the internet. Your parents? Check. Your five year old godson? Check. That little coffee shop down the street? Check. Your grandparents? Check.
How about your local government? Check.
Odds are, your municipality has, at best, a minimal presence. But how about a website laden with multimedia: social networking tools, pictures, relevant information, and...
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Once again, San Francisco's city government is...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom formally announced today—via a post on Mashable, a leading social media blog—plans to open an application programming interface (API) for @SF311, the innovative initiative that allows the city’s tech savvy residents to report maintenance concerns via Twitter. (I covered the June announcement here.)
Dubbed the “Open 311 Platform,” the...
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Social Web Developers: Urban Transformers
My overarching focus on this blog has always been to cover and promote innovations in the diverse urban planning field.
As a catchall profession, urban planning tenets are applicable to all facets of daily life—above all else, as planners, our primary concern is to create healthy, sustainable, and happy communities. (If you’re somewhat perplexed about the planning practice, please...