Meet your Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner/Famous Blogger...

ANC5B08 is represented by the webmistress of the H Street NE-Trinidad neighborhood-focused Frozen Tropics blog. She's having a community meeting Wednesday... Check it out. Lend a hand. Get involved.

To find out more about ANCs.

To find out more about neighborhood-based planning.

For tools about how to think about your neighborhood in a more systematic and focused fashion, click on this past blog entry, "Systematic Neighborhood Engagement."

There are many neighborhood-based examples of best practices and resources for civic engagement in the links in the right sidebar. A couple fascinating orgs I came across/have been introduced to over the past few days include Oaklandish (CA) and Urban Ecology (SF).

Perenial favorites include Liveable City/ Austin, Texas, all kinds of organizations from NYC, including Municipal Arts Society, Gotham Gazette, Transportation Alternatives, and the Center for an Urban Future, publisher of the great City Limits newsletter.

Plus the Neighbourhoods blog from the UK.