Residents Use Board Game to Build Community
Jones, Alice, Nation's Cities Weekly
At a time when a 30 percent turn-out at the polls for a primary election starts to look good, and pundits mumble about the future of American democracy, residents of Marlborough, Mass., found a new way to initiate meaningful political discourse and take an active role in the governance of their community. Through an innovative community assessment technique using a board game, people in this community of 32,000 residents 25 miles west of Boston helped local officials assess their city's needs and chart its future.
Marlborough's unique community forum climaxed a month-long assessment involving representatives from thirteen different sectors of the community. Amid the colorful trappings of a political convention, groups representing all. segments of the …
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Publication information:
Article title: Residents Use Board Game to Build Community.
Contributors: Jones, Alice - Author.
Magazine title: Nation's Cities Weekly.
Volume: 19.
Issue: 16
Publication date: April 22, 1996.
Page number: 3.
© 2009 National League of Cities.
COPYRIGHT 1996 Gale Group.
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