Browse Content: Resource, implementation

The Heart & Soul Community Planning Implementation Guides provide resources for taking action on issues, including issue introductions, methods, case studies, and policy examples.

The Community Heart & Soul™ Field Guide is Orton Family Foundation’s guide to its tested and proven method of community planning and development.

To help communities build a strong, cooperative relationship with their local government, this resource describes how to increase inter-sector collaboration and foster open government.

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.

RMLUI’s code framework provides background information, examples of codes, concrete advice and steps to take in establishing or revising development codes in areas such as energy, transportation and livability.

A database of community planning methods, scenarios, projects and further resources, this website hopes to provide accessible, universal advice to a diverse range of community members and encourage more widespread involvement in planning initiatives.

An online research library featuring practical and scholarly entries on innovative land use laws, regulations, and practices.

Energizing Entrepreneurs is a toolkit of resources for communities looking to promote rural entrepreneurship as a mechanism for economic development.

Learning and Leading, published by the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development, presents methods and resources for promoting Personal Leadership, Organizational Leadership, and Community Leadership skills in youth.