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Community Building: Ed Everett, (former) City Manager, Redwood City, California

10 March 2010

Ed Everett, former city manager, Redwood City, California, gives compelling examples of the effectiveness of community building. He talks about how “all things start with small units,” and describes how a fire department crew brought the community together for a fundraiser for a child with cancer, who had no health insurance.

Community Building: Lee Feldman, City Manager, Palm Bay, Florida

20 January 2010

Lee Feldman, city manager, Palm Bay, Florida, talks about how his city used concepts from Peter Block’s Community: The Structure of Belonging, in a small neighborhood meeting in which his staff took the role of facilitator and helped the neighbors talk to each other.

Brownfields Revitalization - Charlie Bartsch, ICF International

2 November 2009

Tad McGalliard, ICMA’s director of sustainability interviews Charlie Bartsch, a senior fellow with ICF International, to get his perspectives on the brownfields revitalization marketplace and what local governments and other stakeholders can do to keep the momentum going in their community.