Local government version 2.0: from managerialism to platform
What could happen if councils made the change from managerialism to platform? From doing things for people to doing things
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My work in local government—a few thoughts
A reflection on my recent role working in local government and a validation for my approach to the work...
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A next-to-last project: a new community garden for Woolloomooloo
It was a different process getting the Bourke Street Park Community Garden through the social design and into the design
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Three huts on a trail
Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah
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Social planning comes first in community garden design
When it comes to starting a community garden, social design precedes site design, and we have developed a simple management
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Democracy: making it real
Expensive, argumentative and messy it might be, if democracy is to remain a core social and political value then the
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Sun the energy source for evening meals at Selli-Hoo
A very efficient solar cooker is just one of the intermediate technologies found in Australia's longest-triunning share house...
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Ecological restoration: A familiar argument from across the Tasman
A chance find in New Zealand demonstrates that restoration ecology is almost as controversial there as it can be in
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Shacks—part of our culture, old and new
WHILE I WAS AT the Randwick Community Centre the other day I took the trouble to look closely at the
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Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new,
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