Browse Content: Resource

The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) began in 2003 to create and organize a database of resources and tools of various practitioners in the field of dialogue and deliberation. Over 2,000 resources are summarized with web links.

This handbook targets community leaders and provides specific information for how to work with the community to undertake three different Asset Mapping approaches: the Whole Assets approach, the Storytelling Approach, and the Heritage Approach.

This online information network organizes services, legal and technical data such as maps and photos, organizations, and articles relating both to Californian and national land use and environmental planning issues and initiatives.

The Issue Guide Exchange is a free, online resource available to anyone using broad-based, inclusive dialogue to address important and controversial current issues. The Exchange allows people to download or create resources, and interact with users.

This chapter in the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook describes the steps and resources necessary to design a community planning project that fits the needs of your community.

This Tactical Urbanism guide outlines tools and case studies for quick, easy, cheap, fun, and often temporary projects that improve livability and public spaces - from chair bombing to guerilla gardening to temporary parks.

A guide to preventing big-box development and invigorating local businesses and a strong local economy, the Big Box Tool Kit provides concrete advice, information, and a place for groups fighting big-box development to connect.

This online resource for educators and planners includes a searchable database with hundreds of ideas for involving young people in planning or teaching them about community planning, environmental protection, and other planning-related topics.

A chapter and Quick Guide from the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook describe the varied roles a community planning Project Coordinator must fill and helps communities find the right person for the job.

This searchable database, created by the National Association of Counties, compiles green tools, practices, strategies, and projects for improving sustainability in communities and counties.