Managing Change in Rural Communities: The Role of Planning and Design

摘要

This booklet is about stewardship--with a twist. It's about the benefits ofadding design skills to the mix of talents found in rural America. Specifically, it recounts the experiences of three landscape architects whom the authors' agencies placed in three Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) areas for a 2-year project. The goal of the demonstration project was to explore, over a 2-year period, how design professionals, in this case landscape architects, can help local people take advantage of resource opportunities and solve environmental problems.