The Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) helps society achieve a sustainable, equitable, superior quality of life through sound planning, policy, and design.
CQGRD produces, disseminates, and helps implement new ideas and technologies that improve the theory and practice of quality growth.
CQGRD is an applied research center, studying solutions that communities can implement in order to foster quality growth and development. The Center serves communities—particularly those in the Southeast United States—through extensive public outreach efforts. The Center also works to model sustainable business practices in all of its activities. Its work focuses on five complementary programmatic areas:
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