NR111 Strategies for Creating Great Neighborhoods, Part One

This course is the prerequisite for NR114 Strategies and Implementation Techniques for Creating Neighborhoods of Choice through Revitalization, Part Two.

The first of two courses that focus on neighborhood strategy and implementation, this session is designed for practitioners, funders and policymakers who want to get more quality-of-life neighborhood impact through their revitalization efforts. This course uses the latest advances in neighborhood revitalization to define a practical approach to change that acknowledges and works with market forces to attract the social and financial investments of current and future residents of a variety of incomes. We will learn to figure out "what went wrong" in a neighborhood in order to choose revitalization strategies that address underlying problems. This course includes a neighborhood site visit to read investment choices, diagnose underlying problems and brainstorm an approach to revitalization.