Youth Master Planning, a comprehensive process addressing issues facing young people, bringings together stakeholders including parents, teachers, employers, and youth. This method of community planning is taking hold in cities throughout America.
Sound mapping encompasses a range of projects and techniques used to capture and contribute to the aural character of a place. In most cases, sounds are recorded from various locations, and are tied to those places with maps or listening stations.
Community Video projects encompass any type of video documentary or film describing local community. They can be used specifically as tools for planning when they address certain complicated planning topics or issues.
Outside.In collects news items and information about neighborhoods across the country. A GoogleMaps interface is linked to blogs, news tracks and other information, so that users can search a specific location and see information tied to that place.
The Center for Sustainable Economy’s Ecological Footprint quiz measures the amount of land required to support one person’s consumption of resources, illustrating that everything we do has an impact on the world around us.