The Irony of the Predicament of Detroit

tomflanagan — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:02:00 +0000

In a recent blog titled “Detroit and the Temptation of Ruin,” Tufts University civics scholar Peter Levine speaks of art, poverty and hopes for renewal. The story, as Levine notes, is tragic in the Aristotelian sense – local art and architecture documents a rise to power, a celebrated era, and a collapse to “700,000 people

US EPA Taking Democratic Steps Toward Community Involvement

tomflanagan — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:35:13 +0000

The Institute for 21st Century Agoras presented a technology poster at the EPA’s 13th Community Involvement Training Conference in Boston on July 30 – August 1. Our poster is entitled A Democratic Approach for Sustainable Futures, with a more lengthy sub-title “Framing Consensus Views for Collective Action: The Sociotechnology of Interpretive Structural Modeling Embedded within Structured

Community planning – Institute for 21st Century Agoras

The Irony of the Predicament of Detroit

US EPA Taking Democratic Steps Toward Community Involvement