Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Keywords
community design, advocacy planning
Abstract
Community design is a specific type practice rooted in participatory and emancipatory notions of planning and design to overcome environmental, social and economic injustice at low or no cost to the client. Since its beginnings in the early 1960’s, many of community design’s early and then-radical ideas have become more mainstream. In order to assess the state of modern community design, in comparison to its activist roots, this project reviews the websites of 81 community design centers in the United States to ascertain the approaches that centers use in order to successfully achieve operational goals. The research suggests that the clients of community design centers are no longer limited to low-income communities, and while there are a set of core approaches that define community design practice in 2012, locally appropriate and entrepreneurial solutions provide community design with a broad-based toolkit from which practitioners can draw in order to stay relevant and solvent.
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Recommended Citation
Finn, Donovan and Brody, Jason, "The State of Community Design: An Analysis of Community Design Center Services" (2014). School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications. 6.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/somas_articles/6