Interesting interview with American New Urbanist, Andres Duany, appears in the recent issue of Builder Magazine. In it, Duany discusses the challenges presented by some forms of public participation to efforts made by “smart growth” advocates in local and regional planning. To the question, “what is the biggest impediment to smart growth?”, Duany answers, “Citizen [...]
This from Dr. Jim Fishkin of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy:
Next weekend, Jan 9-10, a civic non-partisan organization, Power2010 will hold a national face to face Deliberative Poll in London. The agenda comes from thousands of online submissions to their web site about how to improve the political system. A national online sample, recruited by [...]
Interesting survey of online engagement campaigns by Fox & Hounds Daily columnist and New America scholar, Joe Mathews of the three declared Republican gubernatorial candidates. It appears that most are only outbound efforts with little consideration of public submissions. The lone exception appears to be Tom Campbell, who, while running behind in most polls, is [...]