Playing Around with Civic Engagement Strategies in the Triad
Public Deposited- Alternate title
- Local and Regional North Carolina Collaborations: Case Studies from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association: Playing Around with Civic Engagement Strategies in the Triad
- Creator
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Ryan, Deborah
- Other Affiliation: Managing Principal, Ryan-Harris, LLC; Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
- Abstract
- In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner plays the owner of a failing farm, who hears a voice repeatedly whisper, “If you build it, he will come” as he walks through his cornfield. Costner eventually learns “it” is a baseball field and that the “he” is the long-deceased Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven other equally dead baseball players banned from the sport in the 1919 “Chicago Black Sox” scandal. Costner plows down the cornfield, the players arrive, and his farm is supposedly saved by the hundreds of people seen approaching in cars to watch the game at the end of the film. But urban planning is not Field of Dreams. Planners and leaders should understand that when it comes to public meetings, even “If you build it,” it is unlikely the public “will come” to save the farm, or show up to share their thoughts about how growth should occur on or around it.
- Date of publication
- 2014
- DOI
- Resource type
- Article
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 39
- Page start
- 48
- Page end
- 49
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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