Karo-kurzarmhemd urban mechanics
Kurzarmhemd – kariert: Hawes & Curtis We work across departments and communities to explore, experiment, and evaluate new approaches to government and civic life. The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) was formed in as the Mayor's civic research and design team (one of the first in the nation).
Home [www.newurbanmechanicslabs.org] Understanding public works, infrastructure, land use, zoning, and real estate development has been prerequisite for leading cities for quite some time, to be sure. Appreciation for architecture and urban design, parks, and public space has increasingly been valued as well.
New Urban Mechanics: The Start-Up Within Boston's City
This paper investigates how public sector institutions change their form and approach to achieve a socially innovative urban governance. The “Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics” (MONUM) in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) proves a representative case of innovation in the public sector.New Public Institutional Forms and Social Innovation in Urban Over the last three years, the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, the innovative, collaborative ethos within City Hall fostered by Mayor Menino and his current chief of staff, Mitchell Weiss, and Boston's launch of a CRM system and its associated Citizens Connect smartphone app have all attracted substantial media attention.