"Community PlanIt is an online engagement platform for local planning efforts. Bringing together the interactivity of social networks and the incentives of online games, Community PlanIt transforms participatory planning into a fun activity for all."
The Location Efficient Mortgage (LEM) is an innovative mortgage product for low- and moderate- income borrowers who are interested in living in urban areas served by public transportation systems.
A comprehensive planning concept to address built infrastructure, environmental infrastructure, and economic/social infrastructure in the planning process. By focusing on multiple networks, communities may be planned holistically.
Do you ever think about building, or fixing up, a playground? The KaBOOM! Project Planner is a step by step tool that has everything you need to learn, plan, organize and build a playground, or site enhancement, project! http://projects.kaboom.org
This community event uses regional maps and Legos to provide visual supplement to community discussions of planning and growth issues. Lego blocks may represent jobs, housing units, people, or other attributes to devise a vision for the future.
Human Geographic Mapping is a mapping process that trades typical notions of political boundaries for a system that defines boundaries by natural elements and human interactions.
The Orton Foundation believes that a shared sense of community is built through citizen interaction. This is why the Community Almanac was created; a place on the web where communities can share stories about the heart and soul of their hometown.
Modeled after traditional storytelling gatherings, Story Circles allow people in a town to come together to share experiences and stories. This process can help communities explore and identify unifying values, which can inform the planning process.
Visioning processes are usually long-term efforts to picture or define the future of a community decades ahead. They are often completed in conjunction with a master planning initiative and run by local governments.