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Tools for Collective Human Understanding
Entertainment is the lubricant of collective adaptability. Learning from researchers working to understand living systems is always a...
circa 2009, and relevant today
Historically a place where people live, has been called a city... but now what?
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
Joe Lambke shared ideas about Urban Villages with other Urban Planners at RadicalxChange's 2020 Conference Urban Villages are small...
blogging ideas along the way
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