Civic engagement can transform communities. Here’s how.

Public engagement has traditionally been a top-down process. Led by City Hall or the planning department or public engagement specialists hired to inform, it involves formal presentations about…

“Reimagining the Civic Commons’ approach to engagement is centered on collaboration, bringing together city officials, nonprofits and community groups in addition to community members. The goals: to create public places that demonstrate how strategic investments in our civic assets can connect people of all backgrounds, cultivate trust and counter the trends of social and economic fragmentation in cities and neighborhoods that have divided people from each other...