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99% Invisible

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Transparency and the City of Detroit

Buell: Transparency can be messy. Sometimes it can reveal mistakes in the process that make you feel frustrated. But radical transparency also means giving space for constructive feedback and dialogue, he says. Buell hopes others can learn from Detroit and kayak and design little windows into processes so often opaque to people who depend on them.

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