the dramatic loss of trust and confidence in public and private institutions has recently led to a rapid growth in citizen-led renewal projects. the global trend has been accelerated by the arrival of crowd technologies, such as crowdmapping, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing.<\/p>\n
citizen-led renewal bypasses risk-averse institutions, and does what they can’t do: it identifies needed projects, funds them, and launches them. institutions can then support these projects when it’s “safe” for them to do so: when the project has sufficient public support and momentum.<\/p>\n
no policy changes are needed to further this trend, but citizen-led renewal would greatly benefit if policy support were in place. if federal, state, and local government were encouraged by policy to support citizen-led renewal, it would greatly accelerate and empower this important trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
the dramatic loss of trust and confidence in public and private institutions has recently led to a rapid growth in citizen-led renewal projects. the global trend has been accelerated by the arrival of crowd technologies, such as crowdmapping, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing. citizen-led renewal bypasses risk-averse institutions, and does what they can’t do: it identifies needed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4900,4899],"tags":[205,2808,2809,2286,2316,159],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-living","category-policy","tag-community","tag-historic-preservation","tag-redevelopment","tag-regenerative","tag-restoration","tag-urban-sustainability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n