Relocalization Walking Tour: A Guide for Relocalizing our Communities
This document provides a basic guide to create a walking tour of a community focused on the potential for “relocalization.” Relocalization is a strategy to build societies based on local production of food, energy and goods and local development of currency, governance and culture. The walking tour helps to uncover the specific economic and cultural history of the community, highlights current issues related to relocalization and illustrates the potential for a relocalized future in the community.
The guide identifies the goals, roles, steps, tools and timeframe involved in creating a localization walking tour. The steps include:
- Contextual research: Determine community history, organizational history, etc.
- Site research: Identify and research community sites that exemplify relocalization.
- Tour development: Develop significant points of interest, focusing on historical, present and potential areas for relocalization.
- Marketing: Develop a PR strategy to promote the tour.
This guide is fairly simple and straightforward, and provides a common-sense framework for developing a walking tour to educate about and promote relocalization efforts.
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