Flipping neighborhood design – City planning options
Warren Karlenzig’s TEDx talk about using collective intelligence to co-create cities of the (near) future. Recently the city of Chilliwack unveiled a new plan for the downtown. It seems like a great, values and vision based plan to revitalize the downtown core. The idea is to create the conditions that could facilitate development of a Live – Work – [...]
What is community?
Jesse Lyn Stoner recently posted Does Your Organization ASPIRE?. I love her posts for many reasons, not the least of which is that she posts within my comfort zone. She posts about vision, values, attitudes, leadership, team building, culture, purpose, collaboration… all the stuff I post about, read about, study, teach and promote. It’s all great [...]
It’s Not Apathy, It’s Barriers
During the last municipal election I had a rather disturbing conversation with one of the folks running for council. The gist of the conversation was that I believed that city hall, elected councillors and city staff could do a way better job of engaging, informing, inviting and generally including constituents in local initiatives, decisions and plans. His suggestion was that [...]
Chilliwack Municipal Election – The Candidates, My Views
Update: I’m just going to keep adding to this and will post updates as things emerge. You can scroll down to the original post. In an earlier post I looked at the candidates through the lense of technology with the view that digital literacy is becoming more important. Now I’ve had a chance to listen to and [...]
