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Recent Resources
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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.
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Native American Creative Placemaking
The report examines a handful of established Native American creative placemaking efforts while offering a first of its kind interactive map of Native American creative placemaking projects.
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Arnaudville, LA
This presentation provides a snapshot of of how arts and culture have revitalized this small Louisiana town.
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EPA's Local Foods, Local Places Toolkit
In October of 2017, encouraged by the National consumer demand to grow and develop local food systems in both rural and urban districts in the United States, the EPA released its toolkit entitled, “Local Foods, Local Places: A Guide to Help Communities Revitalize Using Local Food Systems.” The toolkit offers federal agency support aimed at community-driven planning processes. The focus of the report is to provide assistance and examples for the creation of future local food systems in the United States by outlining step-by-step strategies for organizational planning assistance and hosting community workshops that will lay the ground-work for future implementation. Three phases constitute the ‘Local Foods, Local Places’ planning process: (1) planning, (2) convening and (3) action. The toolkit outlines each phase in detail with thorough case study examples followed by a comprehensive Appendix of resources to assist planners and communities in achieving longevity and success in organizing and creating a local foods system that works for all stakeholders.
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CIRD Coordinator's Manual
The Coorinator's Manual was created by the Citizens' Institute on Rural Design™ to guide the coordinator of a CIRD workshop through all components of workshop preparation, but it can also be used for producing other community workshops. The manual walks the reader through planning a workshop, and includes exercises for setting goals, and creating plans for design, communications, and implementation. -
Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks Guide
This resource translates existing street design guidance and facility types for bicycle and pedestrian safety and comfort for smaller scale places. The guide provides clear examples of how to interpret and apply design flexibility to improve bicycling and walking conditions and presents compelling photographs, visual illustrations and technical diagrams to communicate design issues and solutions in a smaller scale setting.
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Rural Placemaking: Making the Most of Creativity in your Community
This issue of Rural Voices examines Creative Placemaking as it is practiced in rural communities. The term “creative placemaking” is only about a decade old, but rural community organizations have long taken on community-building endeavors that have included the arts. Creative placemaking offers the explicit recognition that arts and artists, when fully engaged with local stakeholders, are often a gel or a catalyst toward sustained community betterment and economic growth.
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Using Arts and Culture to Advance Equity and Inclusion
This toolkit highlights successful examples of how arts and culture were utilized in multiple sectors in equity initiatives. Examples from communities both far and near provide a resource for how Dubuque could engage the community through arts and culture to make a more welcoming, inclusive community.