2017 Visioning Communities Selected
Ten Iowa communities have been selected to participate in the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2017.
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#StrongIowa: Glennda Bivens' Story
CED specialist Glennda Bivens tells how providing opportunities for minority entrepreneurs can transform communities. Her story shows one way Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is building a strong Iowa.
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Towns selected for 2016 Community Visioning Program
Ten Iowa communities have been selected to participate in the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2016. The award-winning program integrates technical landscape planning and design techniques with sustainable community action to assist community leaders and volunteers in making sound and meaningful decisions about the local landscape.
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Three new communities join Ag Urbanism Toolkit to build local food systems
The Agricultural Urbanism Toolkit is a planning process that helps Iowa communities explore their ag-related resources and needs to make fresh, local food products more widely available to residents.
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ISU Extension CED partnering with USDA State Rural Development in national SET program
From colorful quilts in Main Street shops to gilded oil paintings in big city museums, Jennifer Drinkwater sees it all as art. There are no hierarchies, she says, because all art is a creative expression of culture. And as Drinkwater assumes a newly created position at Iowa State University, her expansive definition of art is serving the people of Iowa well.
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ISU professor helps Iowa towns build community, identity and economy through art
From colorful quilts in Main Street shops to gilded oil paintings in big city museums, Jennifer Drinkwater sees it all as art. There are no hierarchies, she says, because all art is a creative expression of culture. And as Drinkwater assumes a newly created position at Iowa State University, her expansive definition of art is serving the people of Iowa well.
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Ag Urbanism Toolkit Helps Establish Local Food Systems
The Iowa State University Community Design Lab (CDL), a partnership between the College of Design and ISU Extension and Outreach, is working with Iowa communities to promote local food systems through a project titled the Agricultural Urbanism Toolkit.
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Retail-Scapes Studio Helps Lyon County Residents Dream Big
From revitalizing Main Street and renovating a library to creating river trails and improving water quality, the possibilities for increasing local tourism and quality of life seemed limitless to Lyon County residents after viewing their county through the eyes of 28 Iowa State University design students.
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ISU Extension CED Receives Public Outreach Award from APA-Iowa
I-WALK was developed in 2010 by Christopher Seeger, associate professor and Iowa State University Extension landscape architect, and Bailey Hanson, ISU GIS support specialist and ISUEO and IDPH have since implemented the program in more than 30 Iowa communities.
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ISU Design Students Work With Three Southwest Iowa Towns
Learn how ISU design students and the Iowa Retail Initiative (link to IRI page: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/communities/IRI) helped three southwest Iowa towns create a regional identity. Read more here.
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