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		<title>What are the possibilities when building a community from scratch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I got the opportunity to participate in the Naked Development Forum hosted by Serenbe and Kalu Yala.  The entire day was focused on exploring the different ways to answer the question: How does one build community? I attended a session led by Ed Everett (who is the city manager responsible for the awesomeness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/05/31/what-are-the-possibilities-when-building-a-community-from-scratch/</link>
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		<title>Community Takes All Kinds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch last week with a friend from high school. He also works for state government, in a building a block from my building.  We decided to meet on the corner and walk to a nearby deli.  On the way to the deli, we were approached no less than 3 times by homeless men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/05/25/community-takes-all-kinds/</link>
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		<title>In Honor of World AIDS Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World AIDS Day was yesterday and over the course of the day, I thought about how HIV/AIDS have affected my life. It wasn’t until today that I actually got a chance to get anything on paper. When I was in middle school my uncle, who lived with my family, started to go blind.  It started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/12/02/in-honor-of-world-aids-day/</link>
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		<title>Social Media: An explanation for public organizations (Part One)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Social Media. Does your organization need it?  Do you have customers, clients, or citizens or other audiences with which you want to communicate?  Do you wish your message could reach a wider audience?  Do you sometimes need to get information disseminated quickly?  Are you looking to engage and enable your base?  Do  you want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/09/20/social-media-an-explanation-for-public-organizations-part-one/</link>
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		<title>People make the place. Change the people, change the place.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new job has brought me to Atlanta, and I’m in the process of looking for a new home.   In Atlanta, sprawling metropolis that it is, where you live largely determines what you do.  It’s fun to be young and professional in a city, but it is only fun if you live in the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/07/20/people-make-the-place-change-the-people-change-the-place/</link>
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		<title>Take the time to design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want everything I own, sit on, drive in, drive on, drive through, play with, touch - use in any way-to be well and thoughtfully designed.  That doesn't mean I need 18k gold chairs.  It means that I want the things I buy and use to be purposeful and pretty.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/05/07/take-the-time-to-design/</link>
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		<title>Got shrinkage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flint, Michigan is one example of, probably, hundreds of cities that are dying; high unemployment, the foreclosure crisis, and young people and families moving out of town have left whole neighborhoods is decline.  Last year I drove through neighborhoods in Detroit and observed that on many streets, for every occupied home there were three or four that were vacant and boarded up.

I was saddened by the sight, especially as I'd always thought of Detriot as the quintessential city.  As I drove out of town, I started to brainstorm ways that depressed communities, like Flint, Detroit, and many others around the country, can regenerate themselves.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/05/04/got-shrinkage/</link>
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