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Integrated Revitalization
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Mission: Creating tools and resources that help communities and regions worldwide
enhance their economy and quality of life by renewing their built,
natural, and social resources in a coordinated, efficient, and
socially/environmentally responsible manner.
Need: There
is a desperate need worldwide for more and better renewal of our
natural, built, and socioeconomic environments at all levels:
Communities, regions, and nations. Integrated
revitalization strategies (which program the renewal of all three
environments together) are an important step towards achieving greater
efficiency and effectiveness from each restorative investment.
However, implementing these strategies will be much easier when
appropriate design and planning tools are available, and when
appropriate resources--educational, financial, and technical--are
readily located.
Relationship of the
IR Tools Program with the
IR Regions Project: Achieving our mission involves two
aspects.
- Our Integrated Revitalization
Tools Program (IR Tools) is creating those desperately-needed
new tools, and is aggregating the resources that are already
available. Our Revitalization Resource Finder (see
bottom of page) is one such tool: Through a single user interface,
it will enable communities and regions to quickly locate the
technical, financial, and educational resources available to their
specific geographic area, and it will address all
12 sectors of restorative development.
[See below for more details on the IR Tools Project.]
- Our Integrated Revitalization
Regions Project (IR Regions) is how we are implementing the
IR Tools Program, while simultaneously advancing the
socioeconomic and environmental renewal of specific communities and
regions. It is described immediately below.
- IR Tools Program
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- The IR Tools Program will
comprise three types of tools—educational, financial, and
technical—each with two or more components (each component will have
a coordinating institution at both the local and the global levels):
Educational Tools:
Financial Tools:
Technical Tools:
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- Note:
As a non-profit organization,
Revitalization Institute does not do consulting work, such as for
business, NGO, or government institutions needing help with their
internal strategy or business development nor do we offer technical
consulting on redevelopment/restoration projects. If your organization needs
help applying integrated revitalization tools or approaches to your company's
business plan, your agency's mission, or to projects, please contact one of the
for-profit firm's in our Affiliate
Network.
- Revitalization Resource
Finder™
Project
Description
The Revitalization Resource Finder (RRF)
will provide a single user
interface for locating all the IR Tools and related resources--technical, financial, and educational--available to a specific community or region, covering all 12 sectors of restorative
development. A rough draft of the RRF user interface appears at the
bottom of this page.
How the RRF is being developed: The
RRF is one of the technical tools being created by Revitalization
Institute's Integrated Revitalization Tools (IR Tools) program.
There are three basic aspects to the IR Tools program: 1) Developing
new tools and resources for integrated revitalization, 2) Aggregating
existing
tools and resources, and 3) Developing a comprehensive, constantly updated
online database that will be integrated through the RRF interface.
How the RRF will work: Simply
check-off the boxes that describe 1) Your project, according to the
12-sector taxonomy, 2) The community or
region your project is within, and 3) The educational, financial, and/or
technical resources you wish to find.
Click "Find" and a report will be instantly generated. This report
will help you design, fund, and implement your project in a way that
contributes maximally to the economy, quality of life, and environmental
health of your region. Used properly, it will also help set the stage for further
renewal projects, thus creating a self-sustaining revitalization momentum
that continues to attract investment, employers, and residents while
enhancing the functionality of both your built and natural infrastructure.
The RRF can be used to better-integrate
single-sector projects (such as a brownfields project, or an historic
building restoration) with other restorative agendas of the community--and
with contiguous restorable assets (such as infrastructure)--so as to
obtain maximum socioeconomic renewal. It can also be used to
design, fund, and implement an integrated restoration project that renews
multiple sectors simultaneously. The most powerful and efficient situation is
executing an integrated restoration project within a community or region
that has an integrated revitalization program. Learn more about
integrated revitalization.
How the RRF database will be populated:
The RRF database will comprise both new information and existing information
presented in a useful new manner. Users will both extract
and input data. Much of the data they input (such as national and
international resources) will be relevant beyond their own region, so the
database will quickly become useful to other places that are not enrolled as
IR Regions.
The RRF data will be input in three ways:
- By IR Region stakeholders (academic, non-profit, business, and government);
- By "global level" partner institutions outside the
IR Regions (see
Revitalization Institute's 3 Networks); and
- By
Revitalization Institute staff, volunteers, interns, etc.
Specific example: An example of
how an actual IR Region is using its Pilot status to advance both its own
renewal and the IR Tools will be posted here soon.
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Design Template for the RRF
user
interface
[Not functional: For
display only.]
This draft template is designed to help partner
organizations visualize how the RRF will work.
Name:
____________________________________ Organization/Agency:
____________________________________________
Address: __________________________________ City: _____________________
State/Prov: ___________________________
Country: __________________________________ Postal Code:
______________ Email: ______________________________
Office phone: ______________________________ Fax:
_____________________ Cell: ________________________________
Your
organization's URL:
____________________________________________________________________________________
Your
project's URL (if any):
__________________________________________________________________________________
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