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Association: Name: NCA 94th Annual Convention URL: http://www.natcom.org
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Gordon, Eric. "Virtual Collaboration in Physical Spaces: Working with Communities to Design Public Spaces in Boston" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA, <Not Available>. 2009-10-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p245892_index.html>

Gordon, E. "Virtual Collaboration in Physical Spaces: Working with Communities to Design Public Spaces in Boston" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA <Not Available>. 2009-10-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p245892_index.html

Publication Type: Invited Paper Abstract: The incorporation of citizens in the urban planning process in Boston has the good intentions of soliciting community input. In the spirit of this participatory decision-making and as a reaction to the wholesale renewal of many of the Boston’s neighborhoods in the 1950s and 1960s, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) now holds regular community meetings to gauge neighborhood reaction to development projects. The problem is, when six-dozen locals gather in a room with a few professional architects and planners, the willingness of the locals to speak is hindered by the power differential designated by the difference in expertise. In an effort to facilitate more direct involvement by a greater number of people in city planning, I turned to the multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) Second Life, which allows multiple users to build and interact in photo-realistic environments in real-time. In Fall 2007, I worked with academic and community partners to create a program called Hub2, which provides a social design for this virtual technology. Our first task was to teach two classes at Emerson College, which brought together college students, city officials, and local activists to conduct fieldwork studies and experiment with virtual worlds as a means of engaging the design process. As a result of that class, we have begun working with the BRA to pilot the Hub2 methodology in actual capital projects throughout Boston. In this presentation, I will discuss our experiences with these pilot programs. More specifically, I will explain how the collaborative design process made possible by Second Life offers alternatives to accepted notions of community participation.

From 3D Space to Third Place: Building Sociable Public Places in Virtual Environments

Community Collaboration: The Natural Context to Support Public Health Education

Designs on Public Space: Exclusion and the Creation of Bonus Plazas

Municipal Broadband and the Working Poor: Comparative Case Studies of Goverance, Polity and Public Policy in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Boston and San Francisco