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Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Kids

The Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Kids project educates students on the relationship between the” health” of a neighborhood and personal well-being and engages youth in community planning and revitalization projects.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
community character & design,
decision-making,
environmental sustainability,
project design & management,
public participation & outreach,
transportation,
values-based planning,
youth

Malpai Borderlands Group

The Malpai Borderlands Group works to conserve land, protect the environment, protect the ranching lifestyle and enhance the local economy through collaborations of ranchers, conservationists, government and scientists.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
community character & design,
conservation and natural resources,
decision-making,
economic development,
environmental sustainability,
government,
public participation & outreach,
values-based planning

Art & Soul Civic Engagement

Starksboro, Vermont is working to balance a growing population with a rural lifestyle. The Art & Soul project used storytelling and a series of community arts projects to engage citizens and identify common values that can guide planning decisions.

Content type:
projects
Location:
Starksboro, VT
Keyword(s):
arts ,
community character & design,
conservation and natural resources,
decision-making,
facilitation & dialogue,
public participation & outreach,
storytelling,
values-based planning

The Why Here Why Now Project

The Why Here Why Now project collects and publishes multimedia interviews from community members in Yellow Springs, Ohio in an attempt to increase engagement and collaboration among the town’s increasingly polarized population.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
community inventory,
diversity,
public participation & outreach,
storytelling

Focus Westfjords

This photo documentary project, by collaborators and artists Agúst Atlason and Matt Willen, chronicles life in Iceland’s rural Westfjords from an insider and outsider’s perspective, aiming to provide a glimpse into the little-known region.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
arts

Sustaining Jackson Hole

Sustaining Jackson Hole is a comprehensive, citizen-driven indicators program. Citizens set out to measure and track a wide variety of programs and issues in the community, and to create indicators for all aspects of the community.

Content type:
projects
Location:
Jackson Hole, WY
Keyword(s):
community character & design,
community inventory,
data analysis & collection,
implementation,
indicators & monitoring,
public participation & outreach,
values-based planning

Manchester Youth on Boards

The small town of Manchester, VT opened up its government by including two high school students as voting members on all of its boards and commissions.

Content type:
projects
Location:
Manchester, VT
Keyword(s):
decision-making,
diversity,
government,
public participation & outreach,
youth

"I Wish This Was..." New Orleans

Inspired by a combination of underutilized sites and unmet community needs in the city of New Orleans, this low-cost initiative allows people to voice ideas for vacant buildings using fill-in-the-blank stickers.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
arts ,
community character & design,
community inventory,
decision-making,
public participation & outreach,
values-based planning

Sustainable Jersey

SUSTAINABLE JERSEY ™ is a certification program for municipalities in New Jersey that want to go green, save money, and take steps to sustain their quality of life over the long term.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
conservation and natural resources

Washoe County Area Plans

The Washoe County Comprehensive Plan includes twelve individual plans with the goal of articulating and enhancing the unique character of their respective communities. Some have even incorporated character directly into planning maps and ordinances.

Content type:
projects
Keyword(s):
community character & design,
conservation and natural resources,
decision-making,
implementation,
values-based planning