User:Wikiplanner/Wikiplanning

Wikiplanning is an online site created to increase civic engagement in the community planning process. Developed by Deborah Ryan, an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Wikiplanning simulates public meetings through the use of online surveys, blogs, chat rooms, picture postings and mapping exercises. Initially funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wikiplanning has been used to gather public input in communities ranging from a small mill town in North Carolina to a citywide planning effort in San Jose, California.

http://www.wikiplanning.org