Charrettes and thoughs on New Urbanism--you don't need to tell the people, you ask them the questions and they give you NU answers

we don't just come and shit on your town pigeon-style

a model that can be packed up and taken town-to-town? the ideal for participatory methods?

David Campt

David Campt's City Forum presentation and running into him at the bar.
How important is identity and representation/subjectivity for facilitators and consultants
Better to be like David or even Alan--develop a working model, adapt it and travel around and tweak your template
Or grounded in a community, conversation with Aretousa

class readings

Collaboration vs. Empowerment

Latin American Studies notes -- collab vs. empowerment, assumptions of homogeneity in "community"? Latin America, implications for this class/theUS? Arguments why empowerment shouldn't always be the goal, the relationship between "civil society" or the public and decision makers/the state is always contested/changing, always with LEARNING
AmericaSpeaks reading and Penns Landing case - learning is key