Community Planning
The Pratt Center works with community organizations in all five boroughs that seek to influence the shape of the local built environment and helps develop strategies for preserving and creating affordable housing, decent schools, desirable retail, accessible open space, and authentic neighborhood character.
We help build consensus in diverse communities, and collaborate with residents, business owners, and other stakeholders to identify their needs and the tools--including zoning, historic preservation and economic investment--that will help them build the neighborhood they want to see.
Our community planning work involves a delicate balance. We must make sure that neighborhoods remain or become livable. Communities and their spaces must be strengthened and preserved, rather than displaced. But ultimately neighborhoods need development in order to provide housing, economic opportunity and much more. The Pratt Center advises groups on how to build livable, affordable, and sustainable neighborhoods.
Pratt Center's Community Planning services include:
- Visioning. We facilitate a process in which communities identify their needs and workable strategies for addressing them through the urban planning process.
- Education. Pratt Center staff hold workshops, testify at hearings, and speak at other public events to inform local groups and officials about challenges and opportunities confronting their neighborhoods.
- Research. Planners collect data and generate reports, presentations, and maps to document neighborhood needs,
- Community Plans. We provide recommendations for action and support advocacy efforts to advance them.
For more information on Community Planning at the Pratt Center for Community Development, contact Director of Planning and Preservation Vicki Weiner at 718-636-3486 x6464 or [Sorry, display of this email address requires a Javascript-aware browser, in order to deter spam. Please use the general contact page instead.].
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