Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Creation of charrette-based visions and action agendas to capture the potential of riverfronts in 14 Massachusetts communities.
Recognition:
- American Institute of Architects—2004 Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
- The Waterfront Center—2003 Excellence on the Waterfront Award
- Congress for the New Urbanism—2003 Charter Award
Project Highlights:
- Rivers once central to the economies of small and mid-sized Massachusetts cities are today often neglected, polluted, or inaccessible. Their economic and recreational benefits remain largely untapped.
- The EOEA selected Goody Clancy to develop a program that would help citizens build visions for unlocking the potential of local riverfronts. Goody Clancy and its consultants researched the challenges and opportunities along each river and led issue-oriented charrettes—with more than 750 participants in aggregate—that yielded citizen visions for 14 of the state's most diverse communities.
- Goody Clancy designed and produced widely distributed summary posters that documented each community's process, detailed local riverfront issues, and explained the unique solutions and implementation plan produced by each charrette.