What Really Counts in a Community
…and again during my travels meeting with planners and residents. In Emporia, Kansas. In Ely, Nevada. In countless places … including my hometown of Burlington, Vermont It helps — as civic consultant Otis White has…
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The Secret to Compromise: Learning to Read Others
Otis White explores why it’s important for you to understand what motivates your fellow commissioners….
Community Aesthetics and Planning
…Fair of 1893 (The World’s Columbian Exposition), undertook to realize the first city-scale unified design of buildings, pedestrian plazas and public monuments in America. Painted all in white, this “Great White City” thrilled visitors with…
How to Make Decisions People Will Accept
In the second of his series on community leadership, Otis White explains why there’s more to making a good planning decision than just reaching the right result….
What Brand Is Your City?
…Q&A page on its web site explaining what the new brand means and how it can be used. Some interesting observations on branding come from Otis White of Civic Strategies: it’s infinitely harder to create…
Homogeneous Commissions in Heterogeneous Communities
…much do you reflect the different populations in your community? Or are you, primarily or entirely, representative of only one or two segments? Not too long ago, most citizen planning commissions were composed of white…
Talent & Uniqueness
…to the Bottom. A couple of important words of warning, though. First, what is unique and valuable to one person is a white elephant to another. If you establish yourself as something unique, you become…
Arts & Culture in Downtown Hillsboro
…133,000, with more than 113,000 jobs located in the city. Hillsboro is also home to a diverse population, with over 30 percent non-white — largely Asian and Latino. What’s driven the growth? Mainly the influx…
Our Contributing Writers
…written multiple articles for the Planning Commissioners Journal. Our thanks especially to: Joel Russell; Wendy Grey; Carolyn Braun; Gwendolyn Hallsmith; Otis White; Randall Arendt; Ilene Watson; and the late Jack McCall. You can find their…
Paradigm Mismatch & Gorilla Ecologies
…glove with The Business Community — we have black and white pictures in the hallway of our offices of serious-looking men in suits and horn rimmed glasses sitting around the boardroom table or cutting a…
Native Species
…the place, and when it’s inside it attracts swarms of little white bugs and a sort of gooey residue. This hibiscus tree has lovely blossoms, when it blossoms, but the rest of the time it’s…
Strengthening the Planning Commission – Governing Body Relationship
…mentioned suggestion. 146 of our 225 respondents (65 percent) mentioned it as either something they were already doing (106) or that they thought they should be doing (40). What’s more, 22 of those who said…
Rail Redux – Part 1
…Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape Washington’s Union Station, 1980. A great white mausoleum, echoing, empty, way station to the capital’s real sights. Forward to 2012 and Union station…
