Community Planning

Urban and Community Planning

Space Planning for Online Community

Several years of consulting with online community hosts and managers have highlighted a variety of issues that recur across many online community development efforts. We summarize those issues in eight points that have functioned as useful guidelines to working with online communities, particularly within a corporate context. These recommendations focus on the location and purpose of the commun...

Discourse Planning: Technical Challenges for the Planning Community

A Multi-Display Environment for Community Planning

We describe an integrated, tabletop-centered multi-display environment for engaging the public in collaborative community planning. Activities are anchored in a multi-touch tabletop display augmented with multiple large-screen displays and smaller hand-held displays to foster collaborative co-creation. To make the tool accessible for non-technical users, we provide familiar visualizations and i...

Emergency planning and community right-to-know.