Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy. Grounded Strategies serves the underserved communities reclaiming vacant and underutilized land to improve socioeconomic and environmental health.

Stewardship 52

Stewardship Grassroots Urban Planning Leadership 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s good business' " One of the many regrets I have is not getting a PhD in planning. My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Engagement Advocacy 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Other cities are managing parks to reduce the risk of wildfire, restoring shorelines to absorb storm surges, and opting for renewable sources of energy. The Creek Management Plan provides a number of recommendations for the Creek within the Park. But not much has been addressed since the plan was released in 2010!

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Sustainability Housing Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this. Sometimes it is.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Voting Coordinator Advocacy 52