Plan Like No One’s Watching: TheNewAve
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What You'll Learn
- See how a D.C.-area city uses a flexible approach to inclusive planning.
- Learn how building on the momentum from small, inexpensive projects can contribute to a holistic planning vision and multifaceted revitalization efforts.
- Explore public and private partnerships as a means to innovate and maintain momentum while implementing a visionary plan.
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You've crafted an ambitious vision for a revitalized district in the hopes of delivering a more sustainable and equitable future for your community. What's next?
How do planners operate within their professional structures to maintain momentum, foster change, secure necessary funding, and facilitate short-term improvements? More importantly, how does that vision become a reality without entirely replacing/displacing the existing community?
For 10 years, the small, diverse municipality of Takoma Park, Maryland, has used flexible, risk-taking, opportunistic, and sometimes covert approaches to advance a long-range plan for revitalizing an aging auto-oriented corridor at the intersection of two state highways, known as the NewAve.
A series of small, high-impact projects have demonstrated the experiential value of placemaking, affirmed local identity, catalyzed new constituencies and civic stewardship, and helped sustain and build momentum for implementing long-term change.
Learn about unexpected successes, and perennial challenges for the next decade of revitalization on the NewAve.