SPOTLIGHT: NJIT’s Creative Placemaking Land Usage Workshop
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Hub for Creative Placemaking offers full-day workshops focused on utilizing the Creative Placemaking process for planning for land usage.
SPOTLIGHT: ARPC’s Cycle the Arts
Appalachee Regional Planning Council’s “Cycle the Arts” partners with RideOn, COCA and LovetoRide Florida Challenge to create a new cycling experience in Tallahassee, Florida.
SPOTLIGHT: MHDC Affordable Housing Solutions Self-Help Housing program
Milford Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) makes the dream of becoming a homeowner a reality through sweat equity and financing options.
SPOTLIGHT: Rural Voices Magazine
Each issue of HAC’s Rural Voices magazine focuses on a single topic important to rural communities, with subjects ranging from housing for older rural residents to the future of housing finance to citizen-led design.
Philanthropy and Rural Innovation
Partnerships between rural communities and philanthropic entities are vital to kickstarting innovation and achieving long-term improvements across sectors in underserved rural areas.
Stories of Community Food Work in Appalachia
The Appalachian Foodshed Project uses oral histories and digital spaces to foster community foodway growth through storytelling and learning.
Healthcare and Rural Planning
Creating rural communities where people want to live, work and play is vitally important to a community’s health.
Redevelopment for Affordable Housing
Hazard, Kentucky’s Housing Development Alliance partnered with city government to creatively repurpose unused and frequently vandalized property into affordable housing with a creative twist.
Sidewalk Subway
Inspired by subway and metro maps from cities across the world, this project interprets the walking tour routes into subway lines with color coded markings on the downtown sidewalks, including ‘stops’ at destinations.