(from the AmSpks Newsletter)
The Mayor of Kansas City has launched an city-wide, Education Summit Initiative to engage citizens, parents, and stakeholders in a dialogue about how to provide a high quality education to all children living in the city, whether attending public, charter, private, parochial, or home schools. AmericaSpeaks is working with the Mayor’s office [...]
CSC Executive Director, Pete Peterson, had the essay, “Canoes and Online Communities: Front Porch Forums” posted to the tech/politics blog, Personal Democracy Forum. In it, Pete highlights Front Porch Forums - a geographically focused online network, restricted to “neighborhoods” of 100-250 households.
Through describing the Forums, Pete discusses the limits of online “communities”, and how smaller [...]
Fregonese Associates, a land-use planning firm, has been working with the local community in Hollywood to design Hollywood Freeway Central Park. The park will reconnect several communities that were divided when the 101 Freeway was constructed. Representatives from Fregonese Associates held four community meetings, attended by more than 500 Hollywood residents. Community members were able [...]