Infrastructure
The Equity of Economic Opportunity in Rural America
The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
Research on rural America’s economic opportunity from CORI highlights growing disparities due to the knowledge economy’s focus on urban areas. It emphasizes the need for equitable policy and investment in rural regions to address systemic inequities and enable rural participation in the knowledge economy.
Built Infrastructure and Regional Development
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society
Article that argues that infrastructural systems’ material, social, fiscal and political dimensions potentially deepen rather than mitigate structural ‘left behind-ness’.
CITIZENS’ INSTITUTE ON RURAL DESIGN
Housing Assistance Council (National Endowment For The Arts)
CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.
Will EDA’s Recompete Pilot Program reach rural America?
Brookings Institution
Brookings Institute authors offer recommendations on how rural areas can maximize the opportunity to compete for Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program funding.
The Rural Aperture Project: Leveraging Data to Gain New Insights Into Rural America
Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
The Rural Aperture Project uses data to redefine rural America’s narrative, focusing on its diversity and economic realities. This resource, essential for practitioners and policymakers, offers accessible data for informed rural development strategies and storytelling.
Understanding Broadband Resilience and Natural Disaster Risk
Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
It’s essential to build resilient broadband systems to withstand natural disasters, but resilience varies by region and type of infrastructure. New research and tools from CORI will help in planning/upgrading broadband infrastructure in disaster-prone areas, ensuring continuity in communication and public safety services.
The North End Connect Project
The Indigenous Connectivity Institute
The Indigenous Connectivity Institute supported North End Connect to develop a network providing no- and low-cost service in Canada’s largest urban Indigenous community.
The Kids Are Online
Aspen Digital
A repository of stories about diverse communities across America that are uniting to close the digital divide for young people. Curated by Aspen Digital.
How To Organize a Rural Action Infrastructure
Discussion with rural leaders about working together across interests and regions to take advantage of opportunities.
Rural Policy Resources
A collection of resources provided by the Brookings Institution emerging from their rural research.
Regional Clusters and Rural Development
Brookings Institution
Implementation of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge offers an enormous opportunity to advance how regional approaches can benefit — or disadvantage — rural places.
SMART GROWTH IN SMALL TOWNS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Resources from the EPA. Smart growth strategies can help rural communities achieve their goals for growth and development while maintaining their distinctive rural character.