NCI will facilitate an on-the-job training this August for planning staff from tornado stricken communities near Birmingham, Alabama. Jefferson County planners saw charrettes as the way to accelerate the recovery planning process and contacted NCI to request NCI Charrette System™ training for capacity building for local staff and consultants to run their own charrettes. The [...]

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Donna Hinde, Partner and Landscape Architect The Planning Partnership A charrette is an opportunity for participation, and not a requirement. Participation is always voluntary and we can never force people to attend. We have found that without exception, reluctance or unwillingness to attend stems from uncertainty, a lack of faith in the process or from [...]

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Charrettes for Healthcare Planning In this recorded webinar you will learn how charrettes are being used to facilitate a holistic approach to healthcare planning that goes beyond the hospital walls to affect the health of the entire community. In recent decades there has been much research on the links between the built environment and public [...]

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