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If you want people to act, provide them with the means to do so: neighborhood historic district sign lacking contact information

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As well as neighborhood/commercial district branding and identity systems (" Basic planning building blocks for urban commercial district revitalization programs that most cities haven't packaged: Part 2 | A neighborhood identity and marketing toolkit (kit of parts) ").

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy. Grounded Strategies serves the underserved communities reclaiming vacant and underutilized land to improve socioeconomic and environmental health. About the Center for Community Progress.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Designing urban parks that ameliorate the effects of climate change ," Landscape and Urban Planning : During heat waves now and in the future urban microclimates put human health at risk. The Creek Management Plan provides a number of recommendations for the Creek within the Park.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this.