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Community Revitalization and Sustainability
Environmental Design,
College of Human Environmental Sciences,
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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: Monday, August 25, 2008
