Academic literature on the topic 'Vermont Studio Center'

The recent pandemic has brought mountain areas back to the centre of many political and academic debates. Amid the increasing desertification of these areas, the need to protect the cultural and natural heritage has become an emergency. In this perspective, the growing social sensitivity towards mountain areas can contribute to a new landscape design model capable of being the driving force for sustainable development. A combination of agritourism and slow tourism can serve as an opportunity to support the rural economy of mountain areas. To explore this possibility, the case of Vermont (USA) is analysed by exploring some specific practices that lead to concrete reflections on new landscape synergies. In the light of the great debate underway, there are the premises beacause mountains returns to the center of citizens and politics choices, not to be appendages to cities but places rich in resources to be valued in all their authenticity. In this perspective, the growing social sensitivity towards mountain areas can contribute to tourism capable of being the driving force for low-impact development of territory. We are talking about a tourism that allows the tourist to appreciate landscape and cultural resources and the local communities to activate micro-economies that make it possible to stabilize the social roots in territories that have long been subject to depopulation. This means a tourism which, avoiding the romantic rhetoric of mountain places, proposes concrete actions that fall within a clear planning framework oriented towards resource-based development. The combination of mountain agriculture and slow tourism on the line (trails, paths and cycle paths) can be an opportunity not only to support the rural economy of the mountain areas, but also to provide a physical infrastructure for the territorial protection of the farm landscape. To explore this possibility, the case of the state of Vermont (USA) is analyzed, where it has been possible to make marginality a strong point. By comparing Vermont with some Italian mountainous regions and exploring some specific practices and their impact on the territory, it will be possible to identify some scenarios and perspectives useful for a common policy for supporting mountain agriculture.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-98).
In keeping with a long history of striving to preserve its traditional settlement pattern and promote smart growth, Vermont's most recent growth management policies encourage municipalities to plan for and accommodate development in dense, mixed-use growth centers. However, concentrating development in this manner requires a level of wastewater treatment capacity that is absent in a majority of Vermont municipalities and in nearly half of Vermont's existing designated village centers. It is certainly true that wastewater treatment capacity is neither the only nor the most critical barrier to implementing the growth center concept in Vermont. Nonetheless, it is an obstacle that Vermont must address if it wishes to see its smart growth goals fulfilled statewide, including in unsewered towns that are experiencing development pressure and need to increase their wastewater treatment capacity to accommodate such development in their growth centers. The State is currently developing a publication and trainings to educate local decision-makers about wastewater treatment problems and the range of possible conventional and alternative solutions.
(cont.) This outreach effort will definitely help unsewered towns to better understand their wastewater treatment needs and to find the most innovative and economical wastewater management solutions for their given situation. However, sufficiently addressing the wastewater barrier to smart growth in Vermont also necessitates tackling some of the difficulties inherent in financing these types of projects. Therefore, this thesis has attempted to spark a discussion in Vermont about the financing side of this planning dilemma by providing its readers with a better understanding of the funding realities of small community wastewater projects, as well as the revenue-generating mechanism known as tax increment financing (TIF), which has been proposed in Vermont as one way to help towns fund their growth center wastewater infrastructure projects. The research from this thesis indicates that although using TIF is plausible in theory in this context, employing TIF seems to be neither practical nor suitable for growth center wastewater projects in unsewered towns. However, the TIF concept can still be applied at the local level for these types of projects using routine municipal tax revenue. In addition, this thesis suggests several ways the State can assist unsewered municipalities in addressing the challenges they face in financing their growth center wastewater projects.
by Molly E. Markarian.
M.C.P.

In this chapter we return to the story of Anthony and his brother David, who we originally met in Chapter 4, and Joyce, who first appears in Chapter 5. Previously we considered the role of the mental health nurse in working with people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This chapter seeks to consider how as mental health nurses we might go on to work with these people to support their rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. The chapter opens by outlining some key principles of recovery and proceeds to demonstrate how these ideas might be implemented in working with both Anthony and Joyce. “The way I was feeling my sadness was mine. When I was in hospital staff rarely took time to find out what this was like for me. Not taking the time often fuelled what I was thinking: ‘I’m not worth finding out about.’ Nigel Short (2007: 23)” This service user describes how it feels to live with mental illness continuously throughout their lives, not just while they are in hospital. Professional staff may contribute to this feeling if care planning becomes too focused upon symptoms and treatment rather than person-centred care and recovery. In this context, recovery should not be seen as a new concept; rather it can be traced back at least 200 years to one of the earliest asylums, the Tuke Retreat in Yorkshire. “For it was a critical appraisal of psychiatric practice that inspired the Tuke at York to establish a clinical philosophy and therapeutic practice based on kindness, compassion, respect and hope of recovery. Roberts and Wolfson (2004: 37).” Later, during the 1960s, The Vermont Project (an American psychiatric facility) also published research on successful rehabilitative practice that was based upon ‘faith, hope and love’ (Eldred et al. 1962: 45). However, much of the current focus upon recovery practices is based on longitudinal studies in America, services in Ohio, service users were asked to identify what was important to them. This resulted in the Emerging Best Practices document that is recommended guidance in the UK today (NIMHE 2004).