Building Citizen-based Geographic Stuctures for Citizen Empowerment Over Time
Building Citizen-based Geographic Stuctures for Citizen Empowerment Over Time See http://www.slideshare.net/drichardson78737/sector-planning-and-the-comprehensive-plan-b-9 In order to build a comprehensive approach to citizen-based communications, you have to build a process and structure for that dialogue that can build trust, and therefore citizen-based power, over time. Such rationals were promoted as part of ...more »
Building Citizen-based Geographic Stuctures for Citizen Empowerment Over Time
See http://www.slideshare.net/drichardson78737/sector-planning-and-the-comprehensive-plan-b-9
In order to build a comprehensive approach to citizen-based communications, you have to build a process and structure for that dialogue that can build trust, and therefore citizen-based power, over time. Such rationals were promoted as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s. Such a federal requirement in local program administration will do more to build community empowerment than the actual programs themselves. The above-referenced Power Point focuses on a municipal planning effort in Austin, Texas, that was not implemented. However, a similar structure has been implemented in the same locality with Austin Community College, of which I am a member of the Board of Trustees.
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