Walk Score continues their momentum in quantifying walkability – this week launching “ChoiceMaps” – a new way to measure neighborhoods. Other Guerrilla actions! These folks in Seattle “politely” installed impediments in the street to protect bikes. They were taken down a day later when the group contacted the city. What we’re really excited about is that soon, instead of tech hackathons, there will be city hackathons (or civic-a-thons!) where the city listens to its citizens and can test these different opportunities through doing rather than consulting.
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  • Walk Score continues their momentum in quantifying walkability – this week launching “ChoiceMaps” – a new way to measure neighborhoods.
  • Other Guerrilla actions! These folks in Seattle “politely” installed impediments in the street to protect bikes. They were taken down a day later when the group contacted the city. What we’re really excited about is that soon, instead of tech hackathons, there will be city hackathons (or civic-a-thons!) where the city listens to its citizens and can test these different opportunities through doing rather than consulting.

Hank Dittnar argues for investment in small projects, not grand strategies to move the needle for our economy and our communities. We submitted to the Knight Foundation’s latest News Challenge - “How might we improve the interaction between cities and citizens via open gov” Check out our submission for “Citizen-powered wayfinding, on and offline”. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/03/brief-history-suburbias-rise-and-fall/4979/  
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