Posted in community development, urbanology on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
High gas prices threaten to drain small towns’ populations
By DONALD BRADLEY
The Kansas City Star
The expected exodus from small towns, said Don Macke, a widely considered authority on rural economics and head of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship in Lincoln, Neb., will be far more profound than the gradual erosion that has been going on since […]
Posted in adult learning, anthropology, civic intelligence, community development, critical culture on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
The Heights Observer, like the Lakewood paper, is written by citizens, who use AGS’s web-based program to upload stories and photographs onto a server. Volunteer editors read the content, post stories to the paper’s web site and design newspaper pages, all via the Internet.
The volunteers and low overhead will allow the Heights Observer to keep […]
Posted in anthropology, civic intelligence, community development, critical culture, critical thinking on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights.
Could a community be an art form?
I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused […]
Posted in anthropology, community development, critical culture, experiential learning, social psychology, urbanology on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Lakewood Ohio’s Visionary Alignment often finds its grip on the Observation Deck of the Lakewood Observer, the city’s all volunteer community newspaper. A thread there, unfolding since May 12, Race, Courage and the Future of Lakewood exemplifies the spirit of deep inquiry that is one of the core facets of this project.
The Visionary Alignment is […]
Posted in anthropology, civic intelligence, community development, urbanology on Apr 14th, 2007 No Comments »
I had occasion to contribute some thoughts to the Observation Deck of the Lakewood (Ohio) Observer, a all-volunteer, community newspaper. I was briefly and memorably involved in early efforts to develop civic intelligence there. Lakewood remains one of those special urban places. Snug againt Cleveland proper and Lake Erie, Lakewood is still the most densely […]
Posted in civic intelligence, community development, new paradigms, urbanology on Sep 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Today. 4pm. The Lakewood Public Library Future Tools Series
…presenting a galvanizing vision for the pursuit of transformative knowledge via the exploration of everyday urban life. Then, during the main course of the program, participants will offer their own ideas about how this knowledge could be sought, created, captured, and documented. The evening’s program is capped […]
Posted in community development, phenomenology, urbanology on Sep 8th, 2005 No Comments »
The Lakewood Public Library Future Tools Series
announcement@ Listening to the City
Experiential Learning and Civic Transformation
A month of presentations, workshops, and discussions presented by Frank A. Mills (Urban Paradoxes) and Stephen Calhoun (squareONE:experiential toolmakers)
The programs are free For more information 216.932.7566 216.226.8275
Lakewood Public Library
15425 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
216.226.8275
Posted in community development, economics, positive psychology, psychology on Aug 24th, 2005 No Comments »
The Centre for Confidence (Glasgow) doesn’t have much in front of its online door, except for an amusing and often thought evoking line-up of articles. What is really amusing are the articles about the psychological consequences of the Scots aesthetic; (proudly disbelieving, depressive in the Kleinian sense; expecting the worst). If you’re interested, check ‘em […]
Posted in community development, urbanology on Jul 5th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been following the local controversy over the canning of Ed Morrison at CWRU-Weatherhead’s REI. I’ve never met Mr. Morrison, and have few contacts with the homie smart mob for whom Morrison was a central figure and maven. Yet, thank goodness! Now his open source economic development model will find a much better home than […]
Posted in community development, critical culture, economics, new paradigms, urbanology on Jul 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Meanwhile…over Lakewood way, I’m involved as advisor, facilitator, and writer in the Lakewood Observer project. As an east sider with one foot planted in Lakewood, I like to believe myself to be the observer of the Observer. The crew of characters has been uniquely open and have welcomed my involvement and the wild stuffs I […]
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