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Smaller & Taller: Place-Based Governance in Chicago
Emergent social norms and polycentric governance strengthen civility.

Smaller & Taller: Governance and Levels of Communities
Chicago made neighborhoods famous. Nevertheless, such character was not the result of a Zoning Ordinance.
#KidCities

KidCities~ an overview
Brazil invited Joe Lambke to speak at Innovation Week 2021. He presented the KidCities mechanism, a tool for municipalities to manage the...

Community License Financing @ENAP Brazil
Joe Lambke presented the Community License Financing tool to Brazil's National School of Public Administration. It supports Urban...

Smaller & Taller: Transportation in Chicago's Metropolis
The CTA used to be referred to as “rapid transit.” People need more than one kind of "mass-transit" experience.
#infiniteTransit #KidCities

Smaller and Taller: Pandemic Exposes Chicago's Zoning Obsolescence
It's time for Chicago to re-think urban planning. Beyond anarchy... post-pandemic... an opening exists to build healthy.
#KidCities

Urban Form & Governance: A Human Ecology
Joe Lambke contributed a human ecological perspective on urban form to Danielle Allen's Harvard Public Policy graduate course. Much of...

Urban Villages~ a missing governance unit
Urban Villages are small governance units of 100-500 people, nested and networked into a larger neighborhood or building that coordinates...

hey Kid...
This Kid lives in a small Urban Village, one of thousands inside Chicagoland, with millions of other people. Set in the near future, the...

Change, Civility, Why We Travel
@Medium Change, especially grand in scope, happens in strange ways and can be similar to biological engineering: operational mechanisms...