123002 Real Towns: Making Your ct

December 30, 2002

Real Towns: Making Your Neighborhood Work

A fix-it manual for real people working on real towns http://www.lgc.org/publications/publist/real_towns.html Just as owner-builders can learn how to work on their homes, citizens can learn how to work on their communities. The obvious place to start is by looking at the parts that aren't working well - figuring out how they are interrelated - and diagnosing how to fix them together. This book gives local government officials, developers and citizen activists the tools needed to apply time-tested principles to revitalize their neighborhoods. You can read "The Citizen Planner" - a full-chapter excerpt from Real Towns - in Terrain at www.terrain.org/articles/rue.htm or order the handbook from The Local Government Commission at http://www.lgc.org/publications/puborder.html or (800) 290-8202. Seed funding for development of the Real Towns handbook and The Citizen Planner workshops was provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Sustainable Everglades Initiative. Real Towns author Harrison Bright Rue is Director of the Citizen Planner Institute, and has over 30 years experience as a planner, builder, developer, and public involvement facilitator. He specializes in community-based planning linking transportation, land use, and environment, and can be reached at hbrue@citizenplanner.com.
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