Civic pride.

This was civic mobilization.

Ushahidi, by contrast, is civic value.

It may just be a place for civic commiseration.

So, these are the civic leaders of the future.

Due to the extraordinary efforts of some of our civic leaders,

The Mall is the greatest civic stage in this country for dissent.

A little outfit that just finished building the new civic auditorium for Coleman.

In 1915, it's not like newspapers were sweating a lot about their civic responsibilities.

A respected business man and civic leader, he was to chair the Queen's reception committee.

And civic leaders should deploy sensors and civic drones to detect rogue drones, and instead of sending killer drones of their own up to shoot them down, they should notify humans to their presence.

Don't forget the time I was in the Himalayas in search of a great civic cat ?

Mayor Red Thomas' progress platform means more jobs, better education bigger civic improvements and lower taxes.

And they still remain as icons of civic response in the face of shared, uncertain, collective threat.

And among them are the future scientists, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists, engineers, laborers and civic leaders we desperately need.

And that kind of civic value is not just a side effect of opening up to human motivation.

The accomplishment of civic virtue is tied to the uses of intellect and imagination at their most challenging.

But we can also celebrate and support and reward the people trying to use cognitive surplus to create civic value.

In effect, civic mindedness is treated as outside the realm of what purports to be serious thinking and adult purposes.

The cathedral with the baptisry in front of it as a kind of religious and civic center of the city.

This is it on a smaller scale the back of the civic center in my town, Saratoga Springs, New York.

So better to shy away from, to ignore, the moral and the religious convictions that people bring to civic life.

This is the back of Boston City Hall, the most important, you know, significant civic building in Albany excuse me in Boston.

And in certain very high security areas, perhaps civic drones would snare them and drag them off to a bomb disposal facility.

You had to go to church, you had to go to a civic event, you had to go hear somebody making music live.

When this country first encountered genuine diversity in the 1960s, we adopted tolerance as the core civic virtue with which we would approach that.

So, my civic center colleagues and I made a tool kit, and now walls have been made in countries around the world, including Kazakhstan,

Red can be comical it can draw your attention to the poor little personality of the little fire hydrant suffering from bad civic planning in Havana.

But we really need you to make sure that these algorithms have encoded in them a sense of the public life, a sense of civic responsibility.

We have professionalized liberal arts to the point where they no longer provide the breadth of application and the enhanced capacity for civic engagement that is their signature.

For example, can you imagine that decent, civic, talented people are going to run for office if they really do believe that politics is also about managing mistrust?

It's not just Code for America fellows, there are hundreds of people all over the country that are standing and writing civic apps every day in their own communities.

Of course you can't separate this out from issues like social diversity, mass transit, the ability to be able to walk a convenient distance, the quality of civic spaces.

So you also have the ability for people to start coming together and acting on their own behalf in political and civic ways, in ways that haven't happened before.

The public realm in America has two roles it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good.

And your ability to define space and to create places that are worth caring about all comes from a body of culture that we call the culture of civic design.

and, of course, it is more specific to kind of an American tradition of civic engagement and philanthropy but still, the Metropolitan Opera is an NGO, Oxfam is an NGO,

Seen from those stairs, all politicians today seem the same, and politics has come to resemble a sport that inspires more aggressiveness and pessimism than social cohesion and the desire for civic protaganism.

And when you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others, both in our private and in our civic spaces.

There are many reasons to celebrate the current democratic wave. Democracy is associated with less injustice and abuse, with basic civic and political freedoms, and with greater sensitivity by governments for the true priorities of its citizens.

At the same time, liberal feminists began to invest more effort in civic associations, rather than political parties. This broadened their focus to Moroccan society as a whole and questions of how people could be empowered to improve their lives.

But what I'm here to talk to you about today is how that same interdependence is actually an extremely powerful social infrastructure that we can actually harness to help heal some of our deepest civic issues, if we apply open source collaboration.

We're going to have to re learn what the building blocks of these things are the street, the block, how to compose public space that's both large and small, the courtyard, the civic square and how to really make use of this property.

I appreciated the real estate values beyond everybody's expectations and the owners of the park turned me down for eight million dollars last year, and said, Mr. Strickland, you ought to get the Civic Leader of the Year Award because you've appreciated our property values beyond our wildest expectations.