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Community Design
Community design is a movement focused on the creation and management of environments for people. This process promotes change to the built environment from the neighborhood to regional scale, and aims to meet community needs through participatory decision-making at all levels. Community design helps to establish active partnerships with community residents and institutions, to advocate and develop strategies for improving quality of life. A commitment to diversity and listening to the different voices in a community are core values of community design.

Practitioners of Community Design come from many disciplines, including architecture, landscape architecture, planners

Association for Community Design (ACD) was established in 1977 as "a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities." ACD is incorporated as a 501(c)3 membership organization and is governed by a board of directors.

The stated mission of the Association for community design is "To serve practitioners, educators, individuals and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning"

The stated vision of community design is "Serve as the primary clearinghouse for community design practitioners, educators, and organizations", "Advance research, education, and best practices in community design", and "Provide a national voice on policies that affect community design"

The ACD promotes seven (7) core values in the advancement of community design:

Equity & Justice Advocating with those that have a limited voice in public life

Diversity Promoting social equality through discourse that reflects a range of values and social identities

Participatory Decision-Making Building structures for inclusion that engage stakeholders and allow communities to make decisions

Quality of Life Advancing the right of every person to live in a socially, economically, and environmentally healthy community

Integrative Approach Creating strategies that reach beyond the design of the built environment

Place-based Solutions Generating ideas that grow from place and build local capacity

Design Excellence Promoting the highest standards of quality in the design and construction of the built environment

Prominent Community Design Centers Hamer Center Penn State, State College PA Asian Neighborhood Design  San Francisco CA Public Architecture, San Francisco CA

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