Individuals and groups of people are working hard to improve or maintain the health, safety or appearance of their homes and communities. Residents invent local notions of beauty and also adopt national and regional aesthetics to make their communities look and feel desirable. For example, several garden clubs are members of national groups such as "Keep America Beautiful" or "Wild Ones." Click a photo to view slide shows of Calumet's beautified spaces.

	Flowering the Community Both community organizations and individual residents across the communities are hard at work, planting gardens to make public and personal spaces attractive. Passersby and gardeners benefit from creating these beautiful spaces. more>>
	Recycling and Cleaning-Up Across communities, people turned material or cultural deficits into resources. These transformations could be as small as turning discarded tires into planters, or as large as turning a landfill into a golf course. The people in the neighborhoods we examined approached their surroundings with creativity and commitment to change. more>>
	Art as Revitalization A growing number of civic organizations, governments, and individuals are attempting to stimulate downtown districts by bringing art into the area. Hammond has developed such a program, and local artists and business people are showing interest. more>>

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