Can Planners Learn Something From Computer Programmers?

1 February 2007 - 10:00am

Unconferences, a type of informational gathering among open source software developers, could provide a model for the planning community.

"If you want people to innovate, you usually have to bring them together. Conferences can be a terrific tool for getting folks in the same place and talking about the same related set of ideas, but they have a number of problems."

"Unconferences give a model for gathering people in a low-cost, high-impact way. At it's most basic, an unconference is simply an event where a space is offered for the participants to create and share their own sessions."

Source: WorldChanging, January 31, 2007
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Maybe we should blame Thomas Jefferson. He was the godfather of the urban sprawl racket in America.