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This chapter describes my own personal experiences working on a project funded by the Village of Oak Park, Illinois. The project itself was a year-long collaboration between the Village of Oak Park, Illinois and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in which a fairly sizable group of faculty, graduate students, village staff, citizen activists and volunteers came together to develop neighborhood character plans for two commercial business districts in the village. One of the unique contributions I made to this project was to explore how computer-mediated visualization and communication tools could be used to complement and facilitate conventional community organizing and traditional participatory planning.
The deepest meaning of any place is its sense of connection to human life and indeed to the whole web of living things.
Kevin Lynch, Managing the Sense of a Region
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Ramasubramanian, L. (2010). Planning to Preserve Community Character in Oak Park, Illinois. In: Geographic Information Science and Public Participation. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75401-5_6
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