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Community Revitalization and Sustainability
Environmental Design, College of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri Extension
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Program Description
This is a community participatory process-training program. Extension
specialists work with the community to enable residents to take
charge and make decisions about their own communities. This in turn
leads to enhanced community sustainability and improved environmental
stewardship in both residential and commercial sections of the community.
Target Audience
All of the community ‘stakeholders’ can participate in the planning
process. This will enable citizens of the community to play a meaningful
part in determining the quality and character of their community
and contribute towards community sustainability. In addition, this
program provides the opportunity for Regional Extension specialists
to learn more about participatory planning process and enable them
to facilitate this process in communities in their regions.
Program Objectives
The educational objectives of this program fall into two categories:
Environmental sustainability/affordability and community revitalization.
The Environmental sustainability portion covers information on green
architecture, regionally appropriate design and ecologically sustainable
design. The community revitalization section involves participatory
processes. During this phase of the program, extension specialists,
homeowners, neighborhood and community leaders develop partnerships
to facilitate community design and planning processes learned during
phase one. These methods allow people to take care of their environments
and have some measure of control over their own lives leading to
opportunities to foster ‘sense of community.’
Anticipated Outcomes
Community participants will have the resource materials, skills
and experience necessary to plan and execute a sustainable community
planning process from conception, diagnosis, through implementation.
Extension personnel will be able to facilitate the sustainable revitalization
community assessment process in communities in their respective
regions using these resource materials and processes.
Contact person
Michael Goldschmidt, AIA CSI,
Resident Instruction Assistant Professor & State Specialist
goldschmidtm@missouri.edu
573-884-0905
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Last update: Thursday, May 14, 2009
