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Building civic frameworks (and technical capacity) with urban data

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“Civicness” has an underlying value system that drives data types and rate of capacity growth in public infrastructures.

How do we build capacity for “the Commons” as a framework for civic agency in digital and physical space?

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• Data collection and use require guiding principles –“the civic”– to establish limits, ensure local relevance, and functionally join the quantitative and qualitative aspects of urban life

• Privately financed companies move at a different rate than the public sector

• Collaboration between them is essential but rules for engagement are yet-to-be-made

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How do we improve access to (and quality of) physical and digital space to generate civic agency and creation?

City of Boston Mayors Office of New Urban MechanicsThird Spaces Value System

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What are our limits in the public realm?

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H3 hexagons as a street-grid-agnostic way of quantizing disparate datasets

How do we normalize scales and types of data for optimal relevance tourban space?

And appropriatelybalance thephysicality of urbanform with issues ofsocial equity?

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