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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Category: Journal
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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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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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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Day 1: A ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
In a do-it-yourself approach to tactical urbanism, a Randwick team has removed a monoculture of agapanthus in preparation for a
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A good experience that could be made better
A reflection on working in local government and on its hiring practices...
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Green Square Growers get going at The Tote
A band of urban food adventurers has started turning Victoria Park edible with their first wicking garden bed. Working with
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Entrepreneurship the means to get good things done, says Ernesto Sirolli
Social entrepreneurs, small business entrepreneurs... these are ways to get things done, and even council workers can use their power
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