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Moving to Cary From Rural NC: Urban and Rural Approaches to Citizen Engagement

This entry was contributed by Emily Edmonds, on September 15th, 2016 at 9:00 am and is filed under Dialogue & Deliberation, Outreach Methods, Public Meetings.
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I recently moved to the Town of Cary from a rural area in Western North Carolina. To say that things are different would likely be the understatement of the year; Cary has over 155,000 people at last count, and my hometown had about 2,500.

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My family and I shifted from one of the smallest towns in the state to the seventh largest. That’s a process that will make you pay attention to the differences between where you’re coming from, and where you’re going.

It highlights the need for advocates of citizen engagement to provide more nuanced and custom approaches to citizen engagement that can work for both rural and urban communities – where there are often different cultural norms, values, and lifestyles. Continue Reading

This entry was tagged with the following terms: Cary, citizen engagement, Citizen participation in local government, Civic Engagement, Communication, Community Engagement, Community outreach, dialogue, Effectiveness of community outreach, Innovation, Outreach Methods, quality of life, Rural, Social media, Urban

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