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Engaging the Community

How to Invite the Community into the Planning Process and Embrace Change

Public engagement for transportation projects is undergoing a sea change. Cities are using new techniques to engage and learn from neighborhoods and communities, and in the process discovering a bold new constituency for the public realm.  Engaging the Community will discuss new methods and practices in public participation, from place-making charrettes and neighborhood walks to crowdsourcing and guerrilla gardening.