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  • Bicycle Activism (Bucharest, Romania)

    Jan 28 '12
    Author: 
    Ecaterina Dobrescu

    In the context of the perpetual crisis of urban transportation in Bucharest, there is a growing population of city dwellers fighting for bicycle rights and advocating for a new, bicycle friendly infrastructure in Bucharest.  The bicycle fans coagulated since the mid 2000’s into different groups and NGO’s and developed into a new movement and a powerful presence in the urban landscape, adopting several strategies of public participation.

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  • Dialogue with the City

    Jun 3 '10
    Author: 
    Marissa Loew

    Summary

    Dialogue with the City’s aim was to make Perth the “world’s most livable city by 2030.” It was a process of engaging Perth and the grater area’s citizens in developing a planning strategy for the capital of Australia’s growing city. The Government of Australia wanted a jointly develop a plan for the future of Perth with those people who will sustain the growth of the city in the future.

  • Front Porch Forum

    May 29 '10
    Author: 
    Kaitlin Strohschein

    Purpose/Problem

    The Front Porch Forum began as a series of focus groups to study rifts in communication between politicians, public and the media, according to Civic Journalism: Six Case Studies by The Poynter Institute. The group started as a combined effort of The Seattle Times, The Poynter Institute and two NPR stations.

  • Redesigning of Onondaga Lake (Syracuse, New York)

    Dec 24 '11
    Author: 
    OLeary
    This case study features public meetings and discussions organized by the New York Department of Environmental Conversation (NYSDEC) from 2006 onwards to ensure that citizen input was included in the process of designing plans to clean up the polluted Onondaga Lake.
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