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Civic Revolutionaries
One of the major themes throughout this book is the need for more collaboration, coalitions, and alliances at the regional level dealing with major political, economic, social, and environmental problems our metropolitan regions face. One example the book provides for increasing collaboration between regional actors is to create a dialogue to establish "mutual understanding through a process that suspends judgment, reveals assumptions on both sides, and includes diverse perspectives.." A dialogue replaces the inefficient process of debate with a collaborative one that builds trusts and helps to reconcile difference between seemingly competing interests. In San Diego for example, in the 1980's civic leaders had UCSD set up an organization to spell out all the regions problems and bring the community together to help work at solving the region's challenges. The San Diego dialogue was noted for helping to build connections that broke down borders between......

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