01
Sep
COVID-19 has catalyzed a dramatic shift for planners to conduct nearly all community engagement online. Read on to learn about the specific tools planners are using to achieve their best public engagement results yet....
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21
May
Inclusiveness and diversity are top of mind with any public engagement. Has the shift to online engagement as a result of COVID-19 made engaging difficult to reach audiences more difficult?...
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10
Oct
Dave Biggs was the keynote speaker at the recent Utah League of Cities and Towns – 2019 Annual Convention in Salt Lake City. In Dave’s presentation, he shared tips and tricks on how to re-boot your community engagement strategies to build stronger public support. The session was recorded and is being processed. In the meantime, feel free to check out Dave’s presentation slides. After his keynote,...
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26
Apr
At last month’s Gartner Symposium and ITxpo, Gartner explained why citizen engagement is critical to the success of smart cities. Making a city smart goes beyond optimizing traffic patterns and parking availability. Today, smart city planning is much less about technology and much more about people. "The way forward is a community-driven, bottom-up approach where citizens are an integral part of designing and developing smart cities,...
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17
Oct
With the importance of public engagement for transportation agencies, it’s reassuring to see the efforts that agencies are making to conduct meaningful research and share best practices and leading case studies. One of the most effective examples we’ve seen was conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement and culminated in a report report commissioned by the Illinois Department of...
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