Bibber dies of pneumonia, Jill wins her civic court case, and their marriage ends in divorce (with Jill feeling unappreciated and forgotten).
And in case civic duty doesn't do the trick, Ladera contracts with a company called EntreManure just to come in and pick up the poop.
Until now, states essentially earned millions of dollars a year selling drivers' personal information to a variety of groups, including direct marketers, charities, political campaigns, and in Nebraska's case, civic groups or businesses that resold the information in book form.
Other efforts like LiveStories is also tackling a trove of publicly available information — in its case civic data — to visualise and shape narratives from it, products that potentially also make their way into the news.
In the latter case, civic integration policies which impose selected values and norms on citizens-to-be are easier to justify in public schools, which are compulsory and universal by definition, than in adult integration programs that single out migrants (but not natives) for such preparation.
But what transpired seems another case of civic icon-envy.
Had the Veloster reached showrooms two years ago, it might have been welcomed as a belligerent Ziggy Stardust sent to kick glitter in the eyes of the tC, Forte and, in the Turbo's case, the Civic Si and Volkswagen GTI.
This explains why Murray's general case for civic renewal at the end of "Coming Apart" includes a specific appeal to the new upper class, urging them to consider buying homes and joining local associations and raising their high-achieving children closer to the author's blue collar "Fishtown," and outside the cocoon of the SuperZIPS.
Judges said that Zeitoun "makes a powerful case for civic conscience and convictions", with Eggers' achievement "to have calmly separated the life of one Syrian American out from the context of post-9/11 hysteria and given it back its quiet, unremarkable, everyday dignity".
This article presents a successful civic innovation crowdsourcing project case study, in which multinational firm Bombardier encouraged a global civic crowd to co-create visionary solutions to the challenge of future mobility in crowded cities around the world.
