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Full-Text Articles in Civic and Community Engagement
Planning For People And Beauty, Chester Smolski
Planning For People And Beauty, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Tourists who return from England frequently say the same thing: "What a beautiful country!" True enough, but it did not just happen. A naturally occurring rolling landscape and a climate to keep it green helped, to be sure. But strict government-imposed planning accounts for much of beauty [sic] of present-day England, too."
That Precious 'Ambience', Chester Smolski
That Precious 'Ambience', Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Colette Peters, former Rhode Island School of Design student, renowned cake baker and author of Colette's Cakes, was recently asked about her food memories of Providence. This current resident of New York said, 'Haven Brothers! We'd go to Haven Brothers for hot dogs when I was a student at RISD. It was what we could afford.'"
Assessing Public Participation In Maine: The Old And The New In Civic Involvement, David D. Platt
Assessing Public Participation In Maine: The Old And The New In Civic Involvement, David D. Platt
Maine Policy Review
Lack of citizen participation in American government is a complaint frequently voiced by politicians, political scientists and media commentators. The steady decline in voting, the rising number of Americans who say they are disaffected with their government, and the increase in two-earner households all have been cited as evidence of this decreased involvement by Americans in public life. Maine, with its long tradition of participatory democracy, reflected in town meeting government at the local level, is not necessarily a microcosm of what is occurring nationally. The state has, however, experienced its share of some of the civic maladies note nationally, …