Purpose-driven collaborative crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing often gets negatively associated with competitive websites that utilize a crowd to submit ideas in order to select one winning entry, and less so with collaborative efforts like Linux and...
View ArticleHow the triple-bottom-line will save a town’s economy
What’s happening in Bristol, Connecticut (pop. 61,000), home of ESPN, is pretty representative of small cities and towns across the country, with a vacant downtown surrounded by auto-oriented sprawl of...
View ArticleWhat emerging generations really want: A piazza
As the 1600+ entries in this blog provide evidence for, emerging generations are moving into downtowns, driving less, walking more, living in smaller homes they can actually afford, preferring local...
View ArticleBristol crowdsources piazza into downtown plan
People often ask, “How does crowdsourced placemaking work in the real world?” This is best answered via real world examples, such as the piazza in Bristol, Connecticut (pop. 61,000) . As you can see in...
View ArticleWhat is triple-bottom-line real estate development?
Many of us know that the triple bottom line means “people, planet and profit”, being economically, socially and environmentally beneficial. That is, expanding the traditional reporting framework to...
View ArticleBig Head’ and ‘Long Tail’ both key to placemaking
As we’re witnessing in communities from the Middle East to Wall Street, people are taking it upon themselves to organize and effect lasting change on behalf of the triple bottom line (being...
View ArticleCrowd-invested placemaking… the next step
What is crowd-invested placemaking and why is it the next step? This site is all about crowdsourced placemaking; sourcing crowds to make extraordinary places, and to see that in action, check out the...
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Bristol’s 2-year crowdsourced placemaking success story
This is a follow up story to “Bristol crowdsources piazza into downtown plan”. When Renaissance Downtowns, a visionary triple-bottom-line real estate development firm that won an RFP to develop 17...
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People would crowdsource piazzas if they had the chance…
If given the opportunity to crowdsource a vision for their downtown, what would a triple-bottom-line (economically, socially, environmentally) oriented crowd come up with? Given the emerging...
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Study: Millennials lead trend to walkable communities
The actual headlines based on a new U.S. PIRG study, “New Direction: Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the Implications for America’s Future” actually state how Millennials are leading the...
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