Resources
ARS provides valuable professional resources for regional practitioners to use and share.
Monographs . Past Forum Materials . Best practices . Book reviews. Past Regional Workshops
Monographs
ARS publishes a monograph series on topics of interest to regional stewards, such as community decision-making, leadership development, regional governance, and more.
Members receive full access to these monographs.
Non-members can view the first one for free.
Monograph Indices | Join the Network
Past Forums Materials
Download PDFs and other supporting materials from past ARS National Forums. At each Forum, regional leaders share critical issues facing their regions, identify best practices, and develop affinity groups for long-term sharing of new ideas and approaches.
Past Forums Material | About the Forums
Best Practices Abstracts
ARS publishes reports detailing case studies of regional best practices for practitioners to learn from, ranging in topic from the role of the media in regional stewardship, to a review of regional development programs, to a survey of regional emergency preparedness compacts. Best practices abstracts.
Book Reviews
ARS reviews books of interest to regional practioners, from titles as diverse as Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton’s The Regional City, to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, to Bruce Katz’s Reflections on Regionalism.
Book Reviews.
Past Regional Workshops
ACCE, with the cooperation and support of ARS, is offering a series of workshops that provide participants with practical tools, strategies and policies for leading and implementing a regional agenda.
Workshop presentations.
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