Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development
This collection contains proposed designs and planning documents to assist in Sustainable Community Development, based on issues identified as important by the community. Many of the projects in this collection come from the Sustainable Futures Summer academic program at the Monteverde Institute.
This digital collection is a service of the Monteverde Institute, whose mission is to catalyze social, ecological and economic sustainability by integrating community initiatives with education, research and conservation.
Esta colección contiene diseños propuestos y documentos de planificación para ayudar en el Desarrollo Comunitario Sostenible, basados en temas identificados como importantes por la comunidad. Muchos de los proyectos de esta colección provienen del programa académico de verano Futuros Sostenibles del Instituto Monteverde.
Esta colección digital es un servicio del Instituto Monteverde, cuya misión es catalizar la sostenibilidad social, ecológica y económica integrando iniciativas comunitarias con educación, investigación y conservación.
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Sustainable Futures: A community-based interdisciplinary studio: Summer 2007, 2007
Monteverde Institute
This ten-week course of study is designed to offer university students and interested professionals the opportunity to live and work in a rural, but rapidly developing region in Costa Rica on projects concerned with creating futures that are ecologically and socially just. This is a multi-disciplinary program that uses theory and practice as the learning approach, and introduces issues such as how one organizes to do work and how to engage a diverse and complex community in place-making. The studio projects take place within a community-based learning environment where students learn from residents about local history and conditions and incorporate such knowledge into the planning, design and construction of projects in the Monteverde area. Students work with community members through the local and regional institutions and organizations serving the Monteverde region. In the course of providing technical assistance to the greater Monteverde community, students will learn skills required to gather information from place and residents and to process this information both analytically and expressively in order to develop inspired design.
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Traffic Bar Charts, 2007
Monteverde Institute
Traffic flow data 3 times a day at 3 locations in Santa Elena.
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Traffic count data [Santa Elena], 2007
Monteverde Institute
Raw data on traffic flow into and out of Santa Elena by time of day, location, and mode of transportation.
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![Traffic study [Los Llanos], 2007 by Monteverde Institute](https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sustainable_futures/1342/thumbnail.jpg "Traffic study [Los Llanos], 2007 by Monteverde Institute")
Traffic study [Los Llanos], 2007
Monteverde Institute
Methodology used to determine peak flows, traffic direction, composition of traffic, and origin of traffic.
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Velocity Counts--Cerro Plano, 2007
Monteverde Institute
Raw data of the vehicle type, time, distance, direction, and weather condition of vehicles traveling & graphs depicting average and maximum velocity, taken at Sapo Dorado, El establo, Paseo de Stella, and El Establo at night.
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![Vision [Monteverde], 2007 by Monteverde Institute](https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sustainable_futures/1320/thumbnail.jpg "Vision [Monteverde], 2007 by Monteverde Institute")
Vision [Monteverde], 2007
Monteverde Institute
Vision statement and comments on development in Monteverde.
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Water use estimates, Los Llanos, 2007
Monteverde Institute
Analysis of water use, options for treatment centers, and costs.
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Willingness to pay for graywater treatment by community, 2007
Monteverde Institute
Table representing percentage of households in Santa Elena, Cerro Plano, San Luis, La Cruz, Cañitas, La Lindora, Los Llanos, and Rio Negro willing to pay for gray water treatment.
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Streamflow report for the Quebrada Cuesca in Monteverde, Costa Rica: June 2004-April 2006, September 2006
June K. Yeung, Andrew J. Guswa, and Amy L. Rhodes
Study of streamflow and monitoring of it on the Quebrada Cuecha.
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![Finca Amapala Plan de Manejo [PowerPoint], 2006 by Tracee Johnson, Craig Kelly, Christina Neeley, and Antoinette Swanson](https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sustainable_futures/1072/thumbnail.jpg "Finca Amapala Plan de Manejo [PowerPoint], 2006 by Tracee Johnson, Craig Kelly, Christina Neeley, and Antoinette Swanson")
Finca Amapala Plan de Manejo [PowerPoint], 2006
Tracee Johnson, Craig Kelly, Christina Neeley, and Antoinette Swanson
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Monteverde cloud forest preserve: New Hope handicapped accessible trail, 2006
Cameron Archie, Heather Davidson, and Dan Pugh
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Road to Los Llanos: Supporting materials: Hand renderings, 2006
Monteverde Institute
A rendering of the Los Llanos-Santa Elena Trailway
![Finca Amapala management plan [Supporting materials: Data], 2006 by Monteverde Institute](https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sustainable_futures/1075/thumbnail.jpg "Finca Amapala management plan [Supporting materials: Data], 2006 by Monteverde Institute")
![Finca Amapala management plan [Supporting materials: Hand renderings], 2006 by Monteverde Institute](https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sustainable_futures/1074/thumbnail.jpg "Finca Amapala management plan [Supporting materials: Hand renderings], 2006 by Monteverde Institute")
