{"id":14377,"date":"2023-03-14T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/?p=14377"},"modified":"2023-04-13T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:15:01","slug":"small-towns-have-envisioned-bright-futures-for-30-years-with-help-from-texas-target-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/14\/small-towns-have-envisioned-bright-futures-for-30-years-with-help-from-texas-target-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Small towns have envisioned bright futures for 30 years with help from Texas Target Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A community\u2019s future is too important to be left to chance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 30 years, Texas A&M graduate urban planning<\/a> students have helped small Texas communities realize brighter futures by partnering with them to create plans that improve their economic and cultural destinies, and their resilience to the growing threat of natural hazards such as flooding and hurricanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These collaborations take part in Texas Target Communities<\/a> (TxTC), a widely revered outreach arm of the Texas A&M School of Architecture. Its partnerships with communities across the state have earned many thanks from municipal officeholders and administrators as well as numerous honors from national and state planning associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The honors and accolades acknowledge the important work that TxTC-affiliated students and professors do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In just the past 10 years, 52 communities across the Lone Star State have benefited from partnerships with TxTC, said Jaimie Hicks Masterson, TxTC director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These partnerships have included 172 \u201cboots on the ground\u201d meetings, in which community members work directly with students to envision their community\u2019s future. The meetings also include TxTC-affiliated undergraduates and faculty from urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, and students in degree programs outside the School of Architecture \u2014 a reflection on how communities\u2019 needs can be addressed by a wide array of disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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