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LOCATIONAL CAPITAL / PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES ... WHERE PEOPLE, NATURE AND ECONOMY COME TOGETHER
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PLACE - WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES / WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS
Everything happens in PLACE, it is where people live and work and play, and, it is where economic activity consumes resources, degrades the environment and produces products that a needed and wanted by people.
The performance of place depends a lot on the people or human capital of the place ... their culture, their character, their skills and a host of other people characteristics.
The performance of place also depends on the natural capital of the place. Over the course of history places have been successful when human capital and natural capital complement each other.
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PLACE - AN EFFECTIVE LOCUS FOR ANALYTICAL METRICS
A PLACE does not move ... it stays in the same location for ever. This is a basis for reliable comparative performance over time.
TPB Note: I grew up in Okehampton, Devon, England around 70 years ago. Its population was a little over 4,000 people, up from about 3,500 in the 1930s. Almost a thousand years before the place had a population of a few hundred as recorded in the Domesday book prepared by William the Conqueror after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The persistence of a place contrasts with the ephemeral nature of much of modern metrics.
In the official development assistance (ODA) world occupied by the World Bank, other Development Banks, the United Nations and NGOs, a common form of performance evaluation is the monitoring of 'projects'. Projects exist for a short time, sometimes as little as a year, and rarely more than 5 years and they can also be mobile ... two characteristics that make accountability incredibly difficult.
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The Emerging Smart City
Cities are incredibly complicated with millions of systems serving the population ... with little or no coordination.
Most cities have grown organically over a very long time with only very rudimentary planning ... and in many cases planning with purpose that has been anti-social rather than pro-society.
But some change is happening.
It is anticipated that more than 80% of the world's population will live in urban settings in the very near future.
It is also likely that many major coastal cities will suffer more and more flooding as climate changes and sea level rises.
1 GREEN BUILDINGS
Rooftop gardens or vegetation on the side of buildings to help insulation, absorb CO2 and produce oxygen
2 BUILDING MANAGEMENT
Automation and optimisation of services such as heating, energy usage, lighting and ventilation
3 PERIMETER ACCESS CONTROL
Controlling access and monitoring of restricted areas with CCTV, intruder detection and alarms
4 ROOFTOP WIND TURBINES
Wind turbines built on top of high-rise buildings or integrated into the building design itself
5 AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Controlling CO2 emissions of factories and monitoring car pollution
6 BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS
Solar panels integrated into the building fabric to replace conventional materials
7 SMART GRID
Energy consumption monitoring and management
8 CHEMICAL LEAKAGE DETECTION
Detecting leakages and waste of factories in rivers
9 REAL-TIME UPDATES
Instant traffic updates sent to smartphones to help route planning and avoid congestion
10 VERTICAL-AXIS WIND TURBINES
Helical twisted wind turbine towers across the city for efficient use of space
11 WASTE MANAGEMENT
Monitoring rubbish levels in containers to optimise refuse collection routes
12 SMART PARKING
Monitoring availability of parking spaces across the city
13 EARTHQUAKE EARLY DETECTION
Monitoring specific places susceptible to tremors
14 POTABLE WATER MONITORING
Monitoring the quality of tap water across the city
15 WI-FI
Citywide free wi-fi for public use, including wi-fi on the Tube/Metro
16 WATER LEAKAGE DETECTION
Detecting liquid presence outside tanks and pressure variations along pipes
17 LANDSLIDE AND AVALANCHE PREVENTION
Monitoring soil moisture, vibrations and earth density
18 FAST LANES
Intelligent, adaptive fast and slow lanes for walking and cycling
19 TRAFFIC CONTROL / SMART ROADS
Monitoring vehicles/pedestrian levels to optimise or divert traffic according to conditions
20 SMART LIGHTING
Intelligent and weather adaptive streetlights
21 ELECTRIC TRANSPORT
Electric vehicles and public transport, with charging stations across the city
22 STRUCTURAL HEALTH
Monitoring vibrations/material conditions in buildings and infrastructure
23 FIRE SAFETY
Fire detection and intelligent extinguishing tailored to each room
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THE HUMAN CAPITAL DIMENSION OF PLACE
POPULATION / PEOPLE are a most important asset and especially young people, and those with capacity to contribute
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The STATE of the POPULATION is a major element in the STATE of the PLACE. This is both about QUALITY OF LIFE and STANDARD OF LIVING of the PEOPLE which depends on access to a variety of PRODUCTS (goods and services) which has many COST OF LIVING components as well as their ability to CONTRIBUTE
QUALITY OF LIFE / STANDARD OF LIVING
... FOOD
... WATER
... SHELTER
... CLOTHING / STUFF
... ACCESS TO OTHER SERVICES like retail stores, gas stations, healthcare, childcare, eldercare, education, roads / transport, utilities, public safety, etc is an important factor in the STATE of the POPULATION
... ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT - income and jobs are important in quality of life and the ability to pay for essential needs and other things needed for quality of life.
... ACCESS TO CULTURE / RELIGION / RECREATION
... ACCESS TO SOCIAL SAFETY NET
POTENTIAL TO CONTRIBUTE
... PARENTING and other family oriented care-giving is a valuable part of QUALITY OF LIFE
... ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT - II provides an organizational setting for people to CONTRIBUTE and to be paid for it
... PRO-BONO VOLUNTEERING is another way to make CONTRIBUTION.
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THE NATURAL CAPITAL DIMENSION OF PLACE
LAND / WATER / AIR / RESOURCES / BIODIVERSITY / ECOSYSTEM
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LAND In its natural state the LAND has certain natural characteristics which are changed when there is 'development'. In most cases the NATURAL VALUE will decline as the BUILT VALUE increases. BOTH must be taken into consideration.
LAND - PEOPLE BUILT LAND USE for HUMAN ACTIVITIES, BUILT STRUCTURES, PROCESSES. ETC. ranging from large scale crop mono-culture agriculture, to mining, to deforestation, to mangrove destruction.
LAND - ECOSYSTEM SERVICES are essential for a natural equilibrium but totally ignored in the pursuit of profit. They much be valued and they must be numbered.
LAND - NATURAL BIODIVERSITY has been billions of years in the making, and might be just hundreds of years in reaching extinction on a massive scale. This much be valued and must be numbered.
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WATER There are both FLOWS of WATER and STOCKS of WATER. There is also the QUALITY of the WATER and what it can be used for. Some WATER is CONSUMED and some WATER is contaminated. Contaminated water may be treated or it may simply flow downstream through a watershed doing damage as it goes.
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AIR / ATMOSPHERE - LOCAL POLLUTION has a direct impact on human health at the local level.
AIR / ATMOSPHERE - ATMOSPHEIRC POLLUTION including Ozone depletion, Greenhouse Gases which fundamentally change the way in which solar energy reaches earth caused by emissions of OO2 and other gases at a local level but with global consequences like global warming, acid rain, etc.
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ECOSYSTEM
CLIMATE SYSTEM determines many aspects of what is possible in a PLACE. Some places have rainfall, others do not. Some have temperate climate (moderate temperatures) while others are tropical and others are very cold. Some places have violent weather events ... hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, etc, Climate change is an existential threat because many established bio-systems cannot adjust rapidly enough and will become extinct.
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THE CREATED CAPITAL DIMENSION OF PLACE
PHYSICAL CAPITAL
BUILDINGS / TRANSPORT AND UTILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE / MACHINERY AND EQIPMENT / PROCESSES
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INFRASTRUCTURE / PROCESSES
... HOUSING ...
... FOOD ...
... HEALTH ...
... EDUCATION ...
... TRANSPORT ...
... BUSINESS / INDUSTRIAL ...
... ENERGY ...
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Climate / Renewable Energy ... Cities taking the lead
Mayors Could Shift Nearly 42 Percent Of U.S. Electricity To Renewables By 2035 ... The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is prompting more than 1,400 mayors to make their own pledges.
Sierra-Club-RF100-Report-2017 ... 'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Cities/Sierra-Club-RF100-Report-2017.pdf'
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THE CREATED CAPITAL DIMENSION OF PLACE
FINANCIAL CAPITAL
FINANCIAL WEALTH / FINANCIAL INCOME / BALANCE OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
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FINANCIAL WEALTH that is owned by PEOPLE in the PLACE, or by INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES in the PLACE that BENEFIT the PLACE.
FINANCIAL FLOWS - I that either weaken or strengthen the FINANCIAL STATE of the PLACE as they flow in or out of the PLACE.
FINANCIAL FLOWS - II that are required internally (taxes and expenditures) in order to maintain the PLACE or improve the PLACE
ECOSYSTEM FOR BANKING AND FINANCE has become a critical part of the socio-enviro-economic system enabling money based transactions. A similar system is needed to facilitate value based banking.
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THE CREATED CAPITAL DIMENSION OF PLACE
INTANGIBLE CAPITAL
KNOWLEDGE / RULE OF LAW / JUSTICE / SECURITY / GOVERNANCE / ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
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PUBLIC SAFETY / JUSTICE / LAW AND ORDER
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CULTURE / DANCE / THEATRE
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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PLACE CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE
PEOPLE contribute to quality of life that is, family and friends, community, society ... all interacting in the place
It is also about what the NATURAL CAPITAL of the PLACE offers
It is also about the PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES and SYSTEMS ... the CREATED CAPITAL of many sorts that are in the PLACE and facilitate much of what goes on in the PLACE and especially the organizations that employ people and provide products and services needed to support quality of life.
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PLACE CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE
PLACE IS WHERE NATURAL CAPITAL IS DEGRADED, whether it is degradation of the land, water pollution, air pollution, resource exploitation or greenhouse gases.
PLACE IS WHERE PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES are located, structures with financial value, personal utility AND an environmental cost.
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CULTURE
A place where there is easy affordable access to cultural activities is going to have a quality of life that is better than without. Culture has the most impact when there is participation in cultural activities as well as simply being a spectator.
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GOVERNMENT ... THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
The quality of government makes a difference in the place, whether it is a small community, a bigger city or a whole country. Rule of law is a foundational good idea, but the law has to be fair and equitable and just. When government is hijacked by people with power, influence and self interest, society loses.
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SECURITY ... THE THIN BLUE LINE
Security ... personal safety ... is an important aspect of the place where people live and spend their time. A police presence that prevents crime is better than a police force that merely runs after the criminals and apprehends them after they had done damage.
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THE STATE OF A PLACE ... THOUSANDS OF ELEMENTS THAT GO INTO VALUING (NUMBERING) THE STATE OF THE PLACE
PROGRESS OF THE PLACE ... HOW MUCH HAS STATE IMPROVED IN A GIVEN AMOUNT OF TIME.
PERFORMANCE OF THE PLACE ... WHAT RESOURCES WERE CONSUMED TO ACHIEVE THIS PROGRESS
PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS / POSSIBILITIES ... Everywhere is different, and the best way to get high performance progress is to remove a constraint that makes it possible for everything else to work better.
PLACE IS WHERE PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES are located, structures with financial value, personal utility AND an environmental cost.
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PLACE IS WHERE NATURAL CAPITAL IS DEGRADED, whether it is degradation of the land, water pollution, air pollution, resource exploitation or greenhouse gases.
PLACE IS WHERE PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES are located, structures with financial value, personal utility AND an environmental cost.
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MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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NAVIGATION TO INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC PLACES
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PLACE ... Navigation
Navigation to information about specific places
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PLACE - WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES / WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS
Everything happens in PLACE, it is where people live and work and play, and, it is where economic activity consumes resources, degrades the environment and produces products that a needed and wanted by people.
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THE STATE OF A PLACE
... THOUSANDS OF ELEMENTS THAT GO INTO VALUING (NUMBERING) THE STATE OF THE PLACE
PROGRESS OF THE PLACE
... HOW MUCH HAS STATE IMPROVED IN A GIVEN AMOUNT OF TIME.
PERFORMANCE OF THE PLACE
... WHAT RESOURCES WERE CONSUMED TO ACHIEVE THIS PROGRESS
PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS / POSSIBILITIES
... Everywhere is different, and the best way to get high performance progress is to remove a constraint that makes it possible for everything else to work better.
MANY VARIANTS OF PLACE ... from planetary scale to a person's home
Home / neighborhood / block / community / village / town / city / region / state / country
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The following appeared in a 2014 report for the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation about addressing poverty in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.
This has the idea that people are a foundational building block for success at the community level ... something that is central to the TVM methodology.
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METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PLACE
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TVM MDIA White Paper ... Place in MDIA
TVM-MDIA-WP-Place-140226a.odt ... an 8 page TVM essay prepared in 2014 about the importance of appreciating place and how analytics of place can be foundation for better decision making
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-MDIA-WP-Place-140226a.pdf
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TVM-MDIA-CA-WorkBook-001_141124
A draft workbook (about 30 pages) from around 2008 to collect community information
Now obsolete based on rethinking about the limitations of conventional metrics and how they have to be rethought to make metrics effective, easy to use and low cost.
'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/CA-WorkBook/TVM-MDIA-CA-WorkBook-001_141124.pdf'
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Slideset: p3-TVA-for-PLACE-USA-Baltimore-MD-160325
A slideset in development to describe redevelopment in Baltimore
http://www.slideshare.net/PeterBurgess2/tva-for-place-usa-baltimore-md
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'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141008.pdf'
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Community Analytics ... Components of the STATE of PLACE
from the Community Analytics workbook from 2008
1 1 General
1 1 1 Location
2 1 2 Population and Demographics
3 1 3 Physical Geography
2 5 Natural Resources
9 2 1 Agriculture
10 2 2 Fisheries
11 2 3 Minerals
12 2 4 Coal, oil and gas
13 2 5 Timber
14 2 6 Bio-diversity
15 2 7 Game and wildlife
16 2 8 Water
3 3 Economics
17 3 1 Jobs and Employment
4 4 Money and banking
18 4 1 Microcredit
19 4 2 Minicredit
20 4 3 Municredit
21 4 4 Housing finance
22 4 5 Business banking
23 4 6 Insurance, etc.
24 4 7 Remittance systems
5 5 Infrastructure
25 5 1 Housing
26 5 2 Water
27 5 3 Sanitation
28 5 4 Electricity
29 5 5 Community facilities
30 5 6 Roads and bridges
31 5 7 Seaports and waterways
32 5 8 Airports
33 5 9 Energy
34 5 10 Communications
6 6 Science and Technology
35 6 1 Medical science
36 6 2 Transport technology
37 6 3 Communications
38 6 4 Knowledge technology
7 7 Business
39 7 1 Construction
40 7 2 Retail trade
41 7 3 Wholesale trade
42 7 4 Transport
43 7 5 Mining Industry
44 7 6 Agriculture
45 7 7 Fisheries
46 7 8 Forestry
47 7 9 Agro-Industry
48 7 10 Manufacturing
49 7 11 Hospitality
50 7 12 Tourism
51 7 13 ICT telecenters
52 7 14 Prostitution
53 7 15 Narcotics
8 8 Professional
54 8 1 Accounting
55 8 2 Legal
56 8 3 Business consulting
57 8 4 Other consulting
58 8 5 Engineering
59 8 6 Architects
60 8 7 Testing labs
9 9 Health
61 9 1 Health status
62 9 2 Health professionals
63 9 3 Other health workers
64 9 4 Health infrastructure
65 9 5 Health organizations
66 9 6 Health services
67 9 7 AIDS
68 9 8 Malaria
69 9 9 Mother/child
10 10 Education
70 10 1 Literacy and educational status
71 10 2 School infrastructure
72 10 3 Teachers and school supplies
11 11 Not for Profit Services
73 11 1 Local organizations
74 11 2 Visiting organizations
75 11 3 Religion and Religious organizations
76 11 4 Orphans and vulnerable children
77 11 5 Hospice care
12 12 Culture
78 12 1 Music and dance
79 12 2 Tradition and history
13 13 Other
80 13 1 Any other matter
14 2 Governance
4 14 4 Community Governance
5 14 5 Area Governance
6 14 6 National Governance \
15 3 Security
7 15 7 Security
8 15 8 Crime rate
16 8 Sports
17 9 Entertainment
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Urban architecture /
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PLACE / MANY DIFFERENT INSTANCES
COUNTRIES - STATES - CITIES/URBAN AREAS - SUBURBS - RURAL AREAS - COMMUNITIES - NEIGHBORHOODS - ETC.
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WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES / CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
Everything happens in PLACE, it is where people live and work and play, and, it is where economic activity consumes resources, degrades the environment and produces products that a needed and wanted by people.
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COMMUNITY / NEIGHBORHOOD
Community is an instance of a PLACE. They are small enough to be easy to understand, and therefore easier to manage. It is place where people are at the center of everything.
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Cities and urban communities are instances of PLACE. They have large populations and are complex, difficult to understand and to manage successfully
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COUNTRIES
Country level data provide the dominant metrics used by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations and others in the assessment of socio-economic progress and performance. In TVM we want to go deeper than the country level metrics ... the country is a start.
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REGIONS
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STATE or AREA
A STATE or AREA is a part of a country. It may be delineated by some physical geographic characteristic or it may be defined administratively. The Nile River basin would be an example of a physical characteristic. A Province in Canada or a State in the United States are examples of administative delineation.
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THE STATE OF THE PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES ... CITIES, REGIONS, COUNTRIES
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THE PROGRESS OF THE PLACE
PROGRESS IS IMPROVEMENT IN THE STATE OF THE PLACE
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THE PROGRESS OF THE POPULATION ON THE PLACE
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ABOUT JOBS / OPPORTUNITIS FOR PEOPLE IN THE PLACE
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ABOUT GOODS and SERVICES IN THE PLACE
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COMMUNITY / NEIGHBORHOOD
COMMUNITY OR BEIGHBORHOOD IS AN INSTANCE OF PLACE ... SMALL ENOUGH SO THAT PEOPLE REMAIN AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS IMPORTANT IN THE PLACE
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TO DO NOTE ... 160625
A lot of writing has been done around the idea of COMMUNITY ACCOUNTING, COMMUNITY ANALYTICS, etc. This material is located in various parts of the BURGESS BOOK LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS but has not yet been organized for easy access via website navigation. IMPORTANT TO DO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Community ... New York City
NY Muslim leaders snub mayoral breakfast
Over a dozen community leaders boycott event in protest of reports the police infiltrated Muslim areas for surveillance.
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Communities
Bath UK
A beautiful collection of arial photographs of Bath by Photographer, Heidi Anne Morris
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Act locally
Mapping Neighborhoods To Create Neighborhood Opportunities
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Saw Creek ... Bushkill PA
Community ... Saw Creek Estates in Bushkill PA. Saw Creek Men's Club ... Member contacts
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Community-Youth-Wellbeing-Alexandria-2015
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Community/Community-Youth-Wellbeing-Alexandria-2015.pdf'
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Initiative ... FSG in California
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Redefining Expectations for Place-based Philanthropy
Key Points: This article discusses how The California Endowment has used a midcourse strategic review to refine Building Healthy Communities, aiming to provide insight for other place-based initiatives and to add to the body of knowledge about how to support transformative community change. ·
With Building Healthy Communities, the endowment is taking a new approach to community change using a dual strategy to build community capacity in 14 places and scale the impact of its local efforts through statewide policy advocacy and communications.
In 2013, it commissioned a strategic review to reflect on what it has learned from the first three years of this innovation in place-based work. · Through interviews, focus groups, surveys, and document review, examples have emerged of how this unique approach is contributing to community change. The review also surfaced tensions created by the design and implementation of the strategy that could impede progress.
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A 15 page essay by Katelyn P. Mack, M.S., FSG; Hallie Preskill, Ph.D., FSG; James Keddy M.A., The California Endowment; Moninder-Mona K. Jhawar, M.P.H., The California Endowment
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Initiatives/FSG/FSG-Redefining-Expectations-for-Place-based-Philanthropy.pdf'
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Charlotte-Task-Force ... Leading-On-Opportunity Report-170320
The Opportunity Task Force, a group of 20 community members, spent 18 months in 2015 and 2016 focused on the inheritance of
intergenerational poverty and its negative impact on the life trajectory of far too many of CharlotteMecklenburg’s children and youth. Yes,
we are a thriving, opportunityrich community that continues to attract people—nearly 50 a day—but that is only part of our story. In 2013,
a Harvard University/UC Berkeley study uncovered the other part of our story – our community ranked 50th out of 50 in economic mobility
among the largest U.S. cities—specifically the ability of a child born in the bottom income quintile to rise to the top income quintile as an
adult.
The results of this study were tangible with serious consequences. It was time for our community to take bold action to bridge this
opportunity gap. Community, government, and philanthropic leaders recognized the need for action, and formed the CharlotteMecklenburg
Opportunity Task Force, knowing we could no longer remain idle when many of our residents struggle to make it daytoday,
and face tremendous challenges and barriers to opportunity.
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Community Analysis
TVM analysis has a community focus. The frequency of TVM analysis depends on the natural frequency of the subject matter and the objective of the analysis. TVM reporting aims to make the result of analysis easily accessible, convenient and timely. The purpose of TVM reporting is to facilitate decision making that improves the quality of life of a community.
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Reporting Entity / Reporting Envelope
Reporting about a community is primarily about ALL about the PLACE ... it is more than about the performance of the Government of the PLACE which is an ORGANIZATION in the PLACE, albeit an important organization. A COMMUNITY is the totality of PEOPLE, the PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY and the associated NATURAL CAPITAL, and the totality of all the CREATED CAPITAL ... all the PEOPLE BUILT STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS that are located in the PLACE.
The STATE of the PLACE depends to a great extent on the QUALITY OF LIFE of the POPULATION that is located in the PLACE.
Everything else modifies the STATE of the PLACE as initially described by reference to QUALITY OF LIFE ... either directly or indirectly.
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Elements for Community Progress Analysis
The primary community elements are the following:
... People ... families
... Organizations
... Sectors
... Activities
... Programs and projects
... Events
... Resources
... Constraints
... Possibilities ... potential
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Complexity
The socio-economic interactions in a community are complex ... and probably the critical determinant in the process of progress. The graphic below sets out some of the pieces of the puzzle ... people and the family, the extended family and friends ... all together are the base building block of community.
In community there are all sorts of activities that go on ... economic, cultural, spiritual. All have varying importance. All interact with each other in a multitude of ways. They all have some role in success ... or they serve to constrain and limit progress.
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Governance
There is also governance. Human society creates governance ... it may be light, or not. Governance that is internal, local and relevant has some advantages over external governance that may not be respectful of local conditions. A mix of both may well be best ... and result in a favorable enabling environment.
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Organization and Organizations
There is also organization. Without organization, people are severely limited ... but with organization people can do collectively many things that they cannot do on their own.
Organizations ... High performance economic activities are invariably carried out by organizations. It is possible for individuals to do significant creative work, but production needs organization and organized investment.
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Management System / Organizational Framework
More than anything else, a system is needed that allows the people of a community to self organize and optimize how the resources of the community are best used. The foundation of such as system is a set of appropriate performance metrics.
This is the goal of TrueValueMetrics (TVM), which is a system of metrics for socio-economic measurement that builds on the two key ideas: (1) the basic concepts of money accountancy used by organizations; and (2) the idea that this can be modified so that it has community focus rather than organization focus, embracing accounting for value as well as simply accounting for money.
TVM note: The key concepts of money accountancy used by organizations are (1) the idea of double entry; and (2) the organization of data into accounts that either relate to operations, or relate to the balance sheet. These ideas make it possible to draw conclusions about performance without having a full set of data but without compromising the reliability of the conclusion. The system of accountancy that is used by organizations record money transactions and prepare reports to the stakeholders of the organization. There is a tremendous pool of experience associated with this work ... but it has the weakness that the impact on society (human/social capital) has never been part of the system which also has excluded impact on environment (natural capital).
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Granularity
Even though a community is simpler ... it is still quite complex, but this complexity can be understood. Though there may be many relationships, they are relatively simple, and therefore, understandable. At the community level people have names, and are not merely part of a statistical pool. Activities are tangible, and accounting for costs and results is an exercise that everyone with interest can understand. The community is where progress dynamics are easier to understand and where measurement has more clarity.
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Definitions for TrueValueMetrics
Drafted around 2004
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Issue
Community
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Basic observation
Community has been ignored by ORDA organizations. Lip service is paid to community and participative processes with rapid visits by experts. Most communities have seen very little of development importance in past sixty years. A vast missing link in the development process .
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Prevailing response
A growing amount of “participative” development assistance, but the process is still controlled by the donors and the “top” of the socio-economic hierarchy
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A better response
Community Centric Sustainable Development (CCSD) puts the community at the center of economic progress. It builds on the idea that not only “all politics is local”, but that “all living is local”. A key part of CCSD is using a set of metrics to measure activity cost and the related values within the community.
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