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Recent Resources
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Planning for Recovery Guide
How can rural main streets and downtown businesses bounce back from something as sudden and impactful as the coronavirus?
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Hotel Survival Guide: How to Reopen Profitably
Many rural economies are dependent on local tourism and lodging, both of which were hard hit by the coronavirus.
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How To Do Creative Placemaking
Need an imaginative boost?
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Better Block Recipe Library
Better Block has compiled a few low-cost, high-impact "recipes" for public space activation from temporary bike lanes and parklets to a garden plaza.
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Toolkits for Change
Springboard for the Arts learned from the programs of arts and arts organizations to compile acollection of how-to's for creative projects.
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Little Free Libraries / Los Libres
Learn more about the Little Free Libary / Los Libres program and how to get started with this guidebook by bcWORKSHOP.
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Neighborhood Stories
Use this guide from bcWORKSHOP to learn how to capture the experiences of community residents and turn those into a testimony of your town's culture and growth.
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Activating Vacancy
The following guidebook by bcWORKSHOP takes you through the steps of building a network of stakeholders for a community space, envisioning what that empty space could become, and making those plans happen.
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Community Audited Public Spaces
Learn how to identify priorities, collect community data to support your case, and create materials that advocate for your project using this guidebook by bcWORKSHOP.
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Tactical Urbanist's Guide to Materials and Design
Is your town or community interested in a short-term project to improve public space? Check out this toolkit, the Tactical Urbanists Guide to Materials and Design from the Street Plans Collective.