Network
Resources
Organizations
Bringing design, construction and development services to communities in need.
Association for Community Design
Established in 1977, the Association for Community Design (ACD) is a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning.
BaSiC Initiative - Building Sustainable Communities
A collaboration of faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. Each program draws upon the unique relationship of communities to their environment, finding solutions that embrace appropriate technologies while reinforcing local values to spur self-initiated development.
Making educational projects about places and how they change.
A group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live.
Claiming Public Space
An information commons and archive for the public-interest art, architecture and design community.
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Working for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. We believe that design practitioners have a significant role to play in the well-being of our communities.
Seeking solutions to the needs of the community within the community’s own context, and allowing students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community.
Researchers interested in remaking the terms of engagement towards a collective production of experimental commons.
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
UNICEF initiative to connect as many young people as possible using mobile phones, radio, and web-based applications.
International Institute for Environment and Development
As an independent international research organisation, we are specialists in linking local to global. In Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Pacific, we work with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to ensure they have a say in the policy arenas that most closely affect them — from village councils to international conventions.
Research Tools
UN Millennium Development Goals
The World Bank on Urban Development
Plan NYC: New York City Planning Information Portal
Toolkits
Urban Design Toolkit - The Ministry of Environment, New Zealand
New Zealand Ministry for the Environment. The Urban Design Toolkit is a compendium of tools that can be used to facilitate high-quality urban design and supports the implementation of the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol.
Urban Upgrading - MIT and the World Bank
Supporters
Partners
Chulalongkorn University
The Urban Design Research Institute
Network
Resources
Organizations
Bringing design, construction and development services to communities in need.
Association for Community Design
Established in 1977, the Association for Community Design (ACD) is a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning.
BaSiC Initiative - Building Sustainable Communities
A collaboration of faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. Each program draws upon the unique relationship of communities to their environment, finding solutions that embrace appropriate technologies while reinforcing local values to spur self-initiated development.
Making educational projects about places and how they change.
A group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live.
Claiming Public Space
An information commons and archive for the public-interest art, architecture and design community.
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Working for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. We believe that design practitioners have a significant role to play in the well-being of our communities.
Seeking solutions to the needs of the community within the community’s own context, and allowing students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community.
Researchers interested in remaking the terms of engagement towards a collective production of experimental commons.
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
UNICEF initiative to connect as many young people as possible using mobile phones, radio, and web-based applications.
International Institute for Environment and Development
As an independent international research organisation, we are specialists in linking local to global. In Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Pacific, we work with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to ensure they have a say in the policy arenas that most closely affect them — from village councils to international conventions.
Research Tools
UN Millennium Development Goals
The World Bank on Urban Development
Plan NYC: New York City Planning Information Portal
Toolkits
Urban Design Toolkit - The Ministry of Environment, New Zealand
New Zealand Ministry for the Environment. The Urban Design Toolkit is a compendium of tools that can be used to facilitate high-quality urban design and supports the implementation of the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol.
Urban Upgrading - MIT and the World Bank
Supporters
Partners
Chulalongkorn University
The Urban Design Research Institute
