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Shrinking Detroit while retaining its social capital
Flickr photo by buckshot.jones Detroit faces a painful decision. Its population has crumbled over the last decade, shedding 25% of its residents (or 235,000 people). What was once the fourth largest...
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OurCommonPlace/Nextdoor using technology to connect neighbors
Peter Davis, Harvard University senior, got motivated to launch OurCommonPlace in 2009 after taking Bob Putnam’s course on social capital. He co-launched OurCommonPlace with Max Novendstern confident...
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Nextdoor: e-neighborhood networks
Sarah Leary, Nextdoor.com I had an interesting conversation with Sarah Leary, co-founder of Nextdoor. Sarah comes from having worked at epinions (with the other Nextdoor co-founder Nirav Tolia) and...
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Nextdoor and NYC team up to enhance neighboring
Flickr/kiki99 I’ve written in the past about efforts to use 21st century technological tools to enhance neighbors’ connections with each other, the sort that are far less common today than in the 1960s...
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