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SafeGrowth: Propaganda gardening - the unifying language of food
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Propaganda gardening - the unifying language of food. Sprouting cemeteries - placemaking with food - screenshot from TED Talk. Mateja Mihinjac is a criminologist at Griffith University, Australia currently completing doctoral research into the implementation of CPTED. She has co-taught SafeGrowth in Australia and New Zealand. Mateja worked in the Constitutional Court in Slovenia and is an active member of the International CPTED Association. The importance of education. The Incred...
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rethink urban - Engagement
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Public engagement and the urban place. Public participation and citizen engagement. Creative communities six feet under . . . our feet. July 25, 2016. When my uncle wanted help finding the grave site of a relative who died in the 1920s, I slipped into sleuthing mode. This relative was three when he succumbed to the flu so his brief history was preserved through little more than long-ago stories. Despite calls to cemeteries and churches in the boy’s city, I […]. Peacemaking Circles – Part II. June 12, 2016.
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rethink urban - Urban densification: fan or pan?
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Public engagement and the urban place. Urban densification: fan or pan? May 23, 2015. Urban densification: fan or pan? Nashville blueprint for mixed-use facilities by greshamsmith.com. I have mixed feelings about growing up. I’m not talking about my emotional state or my height but about cities. Like it or not, our cities are expanding upwards. Writes that the aim is to swing one-third of new growth into existing neighbourhoods by 2039 and one-half by 2069. Why a compact city? Some are opposed, convinced...
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rethink urban - Creative Change
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Public engagement and the urban place. Innovative strategies for change - catalyst projects, pop-up initiatives and creative processes. Art Alley making its mark on streetscape and street life. September 19, 2015. Filed Under: Creative Change. Me & my big hair love the nightlife. March 1, 2015. Filed Under: Creative Change. February 17, 2015. What inspires us is often what drives us to do some of our very best work. Inspiration can come in many forms such as a mentor, friend or family members, an eve...
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rethink urban - Steve Woolrich, Target Crime, crime prevention
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Public engagement and the urban place. Peacemaking Circles – Part II. June 12, 2016. By Dianna Bennett Community Engagement using Peacemaking Circles is not a novel concept, us European types are just slow learners. Circles have been used over the millennia by many first nations around the world. The first people’s (aka indigenous peoples) used Circle process to make serious decisions that impacted all in the community. Indigenous peoples […]. Tagged With: circle process. May 4, 2016. January 18, 2016.
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rethink urban - Shannon Kernaghan
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Public engagement and the urban place. Professional writer and researcher Shannon Kernaghan has created great content in many print and online forms, for industries and professional groups across the U.S. and Canada. Visit: http:/ www.shannonkernaghan.com. Creative communities six feet under . . . our feet. July 25, 2016. Is social media a BFF or ‘frenemy’? March 30, 2016. All you want to do is find out what friends and family are up to on Facebook, right? Communities coping with victims of crime. Some s...
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SafeGrowth: The World's First CPTED Town - Tumbler Ridge
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The World's First CPTED Town - Tumbler Ridge. Tumbler Ridge Town Hall. Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a new coal mine in northern British Columbia. How, the planners and developers asked, might one apply Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design to an entire, yet unconstructed, community of 5,000 residents? Tumbler Ridge doesn't look all that different from other picturesque mountain towns. At least not on first blush! Street layout from the air. Strangely, though ...
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SafeGrowth: Building a relationship with law enforcement
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Sunday, May 3, 2015. Building a relationship with law enforcement. Daniel Nicoletta's photo White Night Riots - photo licensed by Wikimedia Commons. Last week there were more shootings by, and of, police. There were more riots - Baltimore, Seattle. Time Magazine. Commentators claim “protests and riots - uprisings - could become the new normal. Welcome to the new America.”. It does not need to be the new normal! This Wednesday I invite you to a webinar on making things better with police and communities.
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SafeGrowth: You In Blue – Guidebook for the new cop
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. You In Blue – Guidebook for the new cop. A new book on policing by Gerry Cleveland and Gregory Saville. As I write, citizens in Cleveland. Are protesting yet another police shooting. Sadly, the wrong members of the community receive the brunt of the blame. Vandals and troublemakers cause the problems, yet many in America are prepared to lay the blame at the feet of African American citizens. That blame is both misplaced and unfair. President Obama’s recent Task Force. A former cop, ...
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SafeGrowth: Every time they want to count you out...use your voice
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Every time they want to count you out.use your voice. Facilitating safety audits with Saskatoon kids - doing it their way. GUEST BLOG: Tarah Hodgkinson is senior researcher in the Integrated Risk Assessment Instrument Group in Vancouver, Canada. She is a member of the International CPTED Association and a certified SafeGrowth practitioner. She is completing her PhD in criminology at Simon Fraser University. Like the lyrics above from the best selling track Sing. Canada. With...
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