Via Slate: The Big Money:
Filmmakers Andrew and Leslie Cockburn discuss a scene from their new documentary American Casino. The scene shows how a sea of abandoned swimming pools in California has become a mosquito Club Med.
James Howard Kunstler: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler: HOME FROM NOWHERE: REMAKING OUR EVERYDAY WORLD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Kenneth T. Jackson: Crabgrass Frontier : The Suburbanization of the United States
Peter Katz: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Christopher Lasch: The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Anthony Flint: This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America
Robert E. Lang: Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (James a Johnson Metro)
Daniel McGinn: House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes
Bill Bishop: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Bill McKibben: Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Catherine Lutz: Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
John F. Wasik: The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream
Tim Walsh: Timeless Toys
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Government 2.0: Citizens take the lead
Look at this nifty and useful Google Calendar implimentation on Greg Kowalski's FRANKLIN TODAY blog:
This is exactly the kind of useful content that a community blog should offer. Bonus feature: If you have a Google Calendar account (and/or iCal on a Mac), you can subscribe to Greg's City of Franklin Calendar and have those events integrated into your own calendar and automatically updated.
That's pretty handy.
The official City of Franklin website has a calendar module as well, and it isn't so bad. It looks like this:
I think, however, the city could stand to emulate Kowalski's use of free Google services so citizens can subscribe, for instance, to meetings covering certain TOPICS and ISSUES as well as gathering of specific commissions and committees.
Inching closer to transparency ....
Posted on May 22, 2011 at 07:00 AM in Close to Home, Commentary, Community Concepts, Good news, Recommended site, Science, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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