National Civic Review articles from September 2002

National Civic Review archives from September 2002

Note from the president.
September 22, 2002... The nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer suggested that all truths pass through three stages: first they are ridiculed, then they are violently opposed, and finally they are accepted as self-evident. Though somewhat...

Social capital and New Urbanism: leading a civic horse to water?
September 22, 2002... New Urbanism has been ascendant in the last several decades, riding its promise as a strategy to reduce suburban sprawl and automobile dependence, while increasingly fostering stronger communities. The number of neighborhood-scale New...

Sprawl, politics, and participation: a preliminary analysis.
September 22, 2002... Advocates of smart growth and other policies intended to constrain urban sprawl increasingly cite a desire to rebuild community as a primary objective of, and rationale for, reshaping America's built environment. Authors Kaid Benfield, Jutka...

New Urbanism and the generation of social capital: evidence from Orenco Station.
September 22, 2002... Across the United States, efforts are under way to create socially enriching and sustainable urban communities. For developers who share these goals, New Urbanist models have emerged as being particularly promising templates. In an age when...

Access to opportunity: the biggest regional challenge.
September 22, 2002... When we were growing up in Philadelphia in the late 1950s and early 1960s, my grandfather would take us for rides in the "country." A new highway had been built connecting our city neighborhood with small towns and wide-open farmland. Even...

Leading and learning: multisector collaboration yields civic change and lessons on the nature of progress.
September 22, 2002... Over the past two decades, a trend has emerged among urban communities seeking to address the disparate needs of their rapidly diversifying citizenry. Faced with the challenges of governing an ever-transforming landscape of classes, races,...

If you only knew how well we are performing, you'd be highly satisfied with the quality of our service.
September 22, 2002... Sixty-two years ago, the political scientist V O. Key articulated the indictment that still plagues public finance: public budgeting has no theory. Specifically Key asked, "On what basis shall it be decided to allocate X dollars to activity A...

Wireless youth: rejuvenating the net.
September 22, 2002... It is practically impossible to imagine a future that is not immersed in increasingly portable and minuscule information and communications devices. The new kid on the block in the 1990s, the Internet is rapidly fading into the white noise of...