Partnership among government, developers and citizens should nurture the community's determination and capability to augment greening.
In particular, demonstration and dissemination activities as well as participatory policymaking can narrow the communication gap between RA developers and citizens.
A community place with a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools, where city and regional managers, developers and citizens can meet, is also installed on the OTN Hubs as to get a service co-creation track on-going.
As an urban wildlife ecologist, I have been involved with a number of green development projects, not only conducting research but also implementing outreach programs and consulting with planners, developers, and citizens.
Kolbert's article vividly enumerates these challenges, and makes clear that underlying each of them is a collective failure of imagination on the part of the real-estate developers, politicians, and citizens who keep building on the waterfront and paving over the wetland with little concern for the long-term, or even the medium-term, viability of the land.
It offers plenty of conflict between old-timers and newcomers, developers and preservationsists, citizens and their leaders and neighbors fighting for their views.
Bonus consideration is given to those who collaborate with others, so the challenge is hoping to see teams of designers, data scientists, researchers, app developers, and even citizens with little more than a great idea getting together to make big things happen.
In India, Ashoka is working with mortgage companies, for-profit housing developers, and local citizen-sector groups to create a thriving housing market delivering affordable new apartments for the "informal" members of the local workforce.
Developers, programmers, businesses and citizens will be able to get and re-use public sector data at zero or very low cost in most cases.
Judging from letters and telephone calls, and comments heard at various gatherings, there seems to be a healthy rise in the design consciousness of developers, public officials and citizens.
Just as we worked with our neighbors to transform West Philadelphia, said Rodin, through this institute we hope to form creative partnerships with urban planners, government officials, foundation leaders, urban developers, and all concerned citizens who are looking to transform their cities. S.H.
