"Whittier resident Max Musicant and The Musicant Group hope to build more community camaraderie by encouraging welcoming front yards.
His consulting firm offers a draft Friendly Fronts Toolkit to generate ideas."
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His consulting firm offers a draft Friendly Fronts Toolkit to generate ideas."
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"Out of the dozen or so finalists for the Knight Foundation's largest annual contest, the "friendly front lawns" project generated - by far- the most local buzz, foundation officials said in April.' The pitch: Get people out of their back yards and into their front yard seen as "dead spaces"
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St. Paul effort seeks to make front yards welcoming places.
"Relationships are built and strengthened, " Musicant said. "There are more eyes on the street...and it becomes a safer place." |
connecting"We have lost 'opportunities to form personal relationships,' Musicant told us. To help create a city and a society where events like those of the last week don’t occur, “we just need to be with each other, we need to re-weave the social fabric of our communities and rebuild these relationships.”
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Innovating"The Knight Cities Challenge just gave out $5 million to winning ideas from civic innovators to help 26 particular American cities, from Detroit to Macon, Georgia.
But there's no reason these ideas can't be used elsewhere. Here are six of the 37 winning projects that other cities might want to steal." |