Browse Content: Project, economic development

Like all cities, Columbus, OH, needs to reduce waste of resources and improve air and water quality. In 2005, Columbus launched GetGreen Columbus, a multifaceted initiative to coordinate sustainability efforts throughout the city.

Conservationists and advocates in the Borderlands area of RI and CT are stressing the need to “reinvent the village.” These towns are absorbing new growth while conserving and enhancing the natural amenities that make this region unique.

In south-central New Hampshire, regional planners used the 3I (three infrastructures) approach to simultaneously plan for the I-93 Corridor's built, green, and social infrastructures.

The Energize Clinton County Project grew out of a citizen movement to broaden participation in economic development, and rebuild the damaged rust-belt local economy in Clinton County, Ohio through sustainability.

After a new bridge diverted business away from downtown Manteo,NC, landscape architect Randy Hester helped the community identify and enhance its character and economy by mapping the spaces that residents found most 'sacred' to their community.

Dakota Dreams used Appreciative Inquiry to identify opportunities and address the serious poverty and economic depression in northwestern North Dakota and create a comprehensive plan for change.

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.

In 1996 the Michigan Land Information Access Association assisted seven Michigan communities in articulating their local character. Using Community Information Systems (CIS) plans were created to sustain and enhance these respective community values.

Using Appreciative Inquiry, the city and residents of Dubuque, Iowa formulated a $20 million plan address housing, community and economic development issues that plagued the town.

Citizens, elected officials and government employees came together for an Appreciative Inquiry process in a region devastated by wildfires and facing extreme population growth.