The idea for It's Our City, Inc. was started about three and a half years ago when I had coffee with two people who have been involved and followed local politics for over thirty years. Our conversation dealt with how Christchurch had changed and how it appeared to be moving more and more away from public participation and rapidly towards some kind of corporate model where participation was being replaced by dictatorial edits from a handful of people at the top.

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