Category: planning
Crowdsourcing Strategy
The McKinsey Quarterly has a piece on organizations that have used wikis and other crowdsourcing technology to create open strategic planning processes (registration required). As the article points out, this approach sometimes requires a change in the nature of leadership roles: Taking these principles to their logical conclusion suggests a shift in the strategic-leadership role [...]
Rotterdam Crowdfunds a Walkway
Last week we looked at the potential for crowdfunding urban improvements. This week Springwise has a piece on efforts by the City of Rotterdam to crowdfund a pedestrian walkway: [A] wooden pedestrian bridge dubbed the Luchtsingel will span 350 meters and require 17,000 planks. Citizens are invited to chip in and help fund the effort [...]
Can Kickstarter Solve Urban Problems?
Over at the Design Observer Group, Alexandra Lange has a very thoughtful piece on how to use Kickstarter to fund public projects: Most of the Kickstarter projects under the Design tab congregate around the themes of bikes, cheese, typography and iAnything, yet there is now a subset of urban interventions. A plastic tent for a [...]
Young Adults Fuel Inner City Growth In Cleveland
In what would have been a startling turn of events just a few years ago, this story of the continuing rise of inner cities comes from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When a new job brought Stacey Brown to Cleveland from San Francisco two months ago, she went looking for an apartment downtown. Her manager told [...]
Highway Deconstruction & Quality of Life
The City Fix highlights an interesting approach to improving the quality of urban life: The famed U.S. intellectual Lewis Mumford once said, “Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.” The recently released report on freeway removal from by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and EMBARQ (the producer [...]
Researcher Questions Food Desert Findings
As we noted last week, a report has called into question the notion that food deserts exist in the US, suggesting that access to high quality food is much better in urban neighborhoods than previously thought. Over at the Next American City, Ariella Cohen has an interview with food researcher Allison Karpyn in which she [...]
