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A Common Theme: A thriving Main Street is critical for rural design
A strong and vibrant Main Street is quintessential to the core of small-town America. It also proved to be a priority for many of this year’s CIRD Learning Cohort. Learn more about why cohort participants feel so passionately about improving Main Street in their communities.
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Rural design as an engine for improving quality of life
Nearly half of the 2019 CIRD cohort communities identified downtown development as their primary design challenge.
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National Endowment for the Arts funds Design Assistance for Twenty-three Rural Communities
After receiving over 80 deserving applications, we have identified 23 awardees and three workshop locations for the 2019 Citizens' Institue on Rural Design initiative.
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Food as a Foundation for Creativity
How do we connect food security with rural design? Katie Starr, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow at the Housing Assistance Council, shares her experiences weaving the two areas together as part of her fellowship work.
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A Piece of Mississippi: Retrospective on Rural Generation for CIRD
This piece is a reflection from CIRD team member Evelyn Immonen on her experience at the Rural Generation Summit 2019, and the opinions are her own.
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