In a new article for the American Planning Association, FFI’s Associate Director of Built Environment, Senchel Matthews, shares her journey navigating the messiness of the planning process. In the article, “Planning for Wellbeing Can Transform the Planner – and the Practice,” Senchel illustrates how planning for wellbeing has been a game-changer, helping to prioritize community needs over transactions so planners can be a catalyst for sustainable change.
Learn how we partnered with the City of Cleveland to transform its approach to development projects by implementing our Wellbeing Insights, Assets & Tradeoffs Tool (WIATT) to prioritize wellbeing and equity.
In Cleveland, Ohio, our work with government officials and residents offers a model for putting wellbeing at the center of how we design our cities.
In an article for Medium, FFI Founder and CEO Katya Fels Smyth shares a new name for an enduring phenomenon: wellbeing stripping. Because it's not just financial assets that are often drained from communities that can least afford it, as part of major development or public good projects.