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Community Engagement: A Necessary Component of Policy Creation

May 1, 2017

Post by Danielle Spurlock Danielle Spurlock is an Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning When creating local policy, community values and experiences can be marginalized if we limit public participation to unilateral flows of information … Read more

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