In an age of atrocity, the unruliness of the people and a fear of the future have combined with terror, naked terror, to make the love of children an all-purpose proxy for each fraying bond, each abandoned civic obligation, the last, lingering devotion.
Pledging to break with the bad old days of economic development grants wired for the powerful, the governor created regional councils, stocking each with civic leaders, unionists, business people and politicians who would learn to talk across geographic and psychic barriers.
How does each kind of civic media project work in relation with the public sphere?
Each grew up in Buenos Aires during years of civic trauma; each has packed responses to a deadly era into the art.
In Smithtown, where the town zoning code calls for a minimum lot size of one acre for each single-family house, civic leaders battled the Kings Park developers' original plan to build 3,031 housing units on 361 acres.
Each year in the civic center, Ms. Henley displays poster-size albums of faded photographs and yellowed news clippings for anglers to peruse in the evenings after their days on the water.
Beyond each other, they found civic leaders had discreetly set up proactive ramparts, including the unity rally at the Crispus Attucks Community Center and a daylong basketball competition that kept local teenagers busy.
Better yet, no matter how tortuous the mountain curves, I never needed to lift off the accelerator; the Superleggera caressed each curve while the Civic just wallowed through them.
Supported by Barcelona's civic leaders, each Ateneu receives public funds to run popular local events - family days and school visits; training courses and social innovation programs: everything necessary to equip citizens with the digital fabrication nous necessary to 'materialise their ideas and create their worlds' (according to the Ateneus slogan).
