Please join the Center for Active Design to discuss the Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines, a ground-breaking playbook for creating well-designed and well-maintained public spaces as a force for building trust and healing divisions in local communities. The Assembly Guidelines capture the culmination of four years of research and collaboration—with input from 200+ studies, 50+ cities, and 70+ expert advisors— to provide evidence-based design and maintenance strategies for shaping places where people trust each other, have confidence in local institutions, and actively work together to address local priorities.

Joanna Frank, President & CEO of the Center for Active Design, will provide a high-level orientation to the Assembly Guidelines, highlighting original research methods and practical, evidence-based strategies. Particular emphasis will be placed on findings from the Assembly Civic Engagement Survey (ACES), the first study of its kind to examine specific community design features that influence civic engagement outcomes, using large-sample survey methods and visual experiments. In the summer of 2016, ACES was fielded as an online survey to a sample of 5,188 respondents from 26 communities across the United States. Communities surveyed vary in economic conditions, racial composition, and density. Findings from ACES validate previous literature, fill considerable research gaps, and point to strategies that city officials and community leaders can apply to cultivate dynamic, welcoming public spaces as celebrated sources of community pride.

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