BUILT asks players to design their own street, neighborhood, and city in collaboration with their neighbors. It demonstrates the complexity of placemaking and the role of community dialogue as officials make decisions about the built environment. A Council member from the Town of Parker, CO brought the tool to her Town Council to reflect on […]
The new play for rural and small communities may be “fishing” for people not companies. And the pandemic has shown us how. Source: Bone Connector, Leslie Boney Read the full article.
The federal clean energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act are a game changer for local governments nationally. But they come with their own challenges. To help small and rural communities navigate them, NLC has compiled information on how small and rural communities can access help. Source: NLC, Carolyn Berndt, May 24, 2024 Read the […]
Understanding the dynamics of growth in a time of shrinking population is the subject of the new book by urban scholar Alan Wallach, Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World that promotes “networked localism”. Source: Governing, Alan Ehrenhalt, May 17, 2023 Read the full article.
Downtowns were some of the hardest hit areas of communities during COVID. What explains the recovery of some of these downtowns, but not others? And more importantly, what does recovery even look like? Source: Brookings, Tracy Hadden Loh, September 21, 2023 Read the full article.
