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04.24.08Community Planning Crashes Head-First Into Web 2.0Planning cities and buildings - the real ones - has, for a long-time, been a top-down exercise. Meaning that concepts and city plans were, for the most part, implemented from on high through architects, city planners, consultants and developers, allowing for very little collaboration with those in the "bottom" and those for whom these projects would impact the most - namely, the ordinary citizen. And there are lessons for other industries in how typical hierarchal disciplines can use the tools of Web 2.0 to communicate with their "users". A fascinating article published by the American Planning Association argues that the Web 2.0 ...
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