The Open Planning Project

Join us at Personal Democracy Forum on Monday, June 29, for Hacking The City:

Grab a cocktail and join Streetsblog.org editor-in-chief Aaron Naparstek, members of The Open Planning Project, and John Geraci, the founder of DIYcity.org, for a freewheeling discussion of how online journalism, advocacy and community-building tools are being used to hack the urban political machine, rewrite city government's operating system and transform city dwellers' relationship to their local politics in New York City and across America. Streetsblog and TOPP are on the front lines of the fight to transform New York into a more livable and sustainable city and have achieved some remarkable successes in moving new policy ideas from the Internet to asphalt in New York and many other cities. DIYcity is a network of developers and urban hackers spanning dozens of cities worldwide, applying and sharing the same ideas across varying environments. If you are interested in applying ideas and techniques of Personal Democracy to urban government, come by and join the conversation.

The fun is all happening at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Hacking the City starts at the end of the first day, immediately after the formal sessions. It is open to all conference attendees.