CRP 3850/5850: Circular Cities and Research to Action: Regional Policy & Documents

Broome County Habitat for Humanity helps construct, rehabilitate, and preserve homes and communities through hands-on work and financial support for families.

The Broome County Historical Society provides programming and resources concerning its history. The Society maintains collections, hosts free public programs, and provides a research service at its location in the Broome County Library.

The City of Binghamton has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to historic preservation. A certified local government, historic preservation activities are carried out through the city's Planning, Zoning & Preservation Department. Click here to learn more about Binghamton's historic districts, national register listed properties, resources for owners of historic buildings, and more!

Based out of Ithaca, Finger Lakes Reuse taps into the value of used materials through its community-oriented warehouse, shopping, and education center.

Historic Ithaca is a non-profit preservation organization dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of historic buildings & neighborhoods within Tompkins County. Historic Ithaca runs several programs, from its Architectural Salvage store Significant Elements to its historic preservation trades education program, Work Preserve.

The Landmarks Commission administers and interprets the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Ordinance of the City of Ithaca. The Commission reviews proposals for changes to exteriors or sites of locally designated historic structures.

Zero Waste Ithaca is a grassroots volunteer organization dedicated to advocating for zero-waste practices through policy and community work.

Tompkins County Recycling and Materials Management's Local Solid Waste Management Plan outlines policy and goals that bring Tompkins County closer to a circular economy.

The Just Places Lab's Waste(d) Imagination Tour guides the audience through the landscape of demolition, adaptive reuse, and imagination of Ithaca's built environment.

Arup's report reflects on the intricacies and benefits of a circular economy and offers strategies to help implement circular practices on multiple scales.

Co-authored by researchers at the Circular Construction Lab and Just Places Lab with collaboration from CR0WD partners, this white paper analyzes the current linear construction economy in New York State, assesses the economic, environmental, and social potential of deconstruction and reuse, and provides state-level policy and practice recommendations.

This multiphase and multidisciplinary research project seeks to support justice-oriented practices in the built environment and work toward carbon neutrality. The project produced a guide and workbook for local governments and community organizations. The project is currently in its second phase focused on the development of a guide for just and equitable land use transitions.

This collaboratively produced CR0WD Local Government Policy Guide provides resources for local government elected officials, staff, and other community leaders in adopting policies that support salvage, deconstruction, and reuse.

The Bay Area Deconstruction Workgroup is a group of Northern California deconstruction and reuse leaders from government, private, and nonprofit sectors working to improve policies and practices advancing safe building materials recovery and reuse.

Build Reuse is nonprofit working toward the recovery, reuse, and recycling of building materials in the United States, and turning that waste into local resources.

San Antonio's Historic Preservation Office has established deconstruction and climate heritage initiatives in the face of growing levels of construction waste and climate change.

The New York State Historic Preservation Office is an important resource helping communities identify, evaluate, preserve, and revitalize their historic, archeological, and cultural resources. This office administers programs, tax credits, technical assistance, environmental reviews, and more.