SYNERGY/Planning Prospering in 21st Century New Urban Regions  AREAS OF EXPERTISE Strategic Planning / Spacial Planning / Comprehensive Analyses / Consensus Building / Tactical Research / Graphic Materials, PowerPoint & Graphic Presentations / Reports / Presentations / Seminars & Courses / Testimony  SERVICES SYNERGY/Planning provides services to achieve clients' objectives in the following areas: Comprehensive planning for Clusters, Neighborhoods, Villages, Communities, SubRegions, New Urban Regions and Urban Support Regions Determining the optimum site for Urban and NonUrban land uses and supporting infrastructure --manmade / built and natural / green Achieving optimum use of land resources including infill, backfill and refill of existing Urban and NonUrban components of human settlement Planning the location and relocation of major generators of Urban activity and supporting infrastructure including a Balance of travel demand with transport system capacity Solving Mobility and Access deficiencies by creating desirable land-use patterns and densities in conjunction with shared-vehicle systems, telecommunications/ transportation tradeoffs and other infrastructure improvements  Building consensus to reach agreement on principles and goals among diverse interests and Organizations Implementing The Third Way strategies to create sustainable human settlement patterns and overcome the stalemate and polarization generated by positions of 'No Growth' vs 'Business-As-Usual' / 'Growth is Always Good' advocates.  GOAL OF SYNERGY/Planning  Creating and implementing strategies to achieve Balanced (Alpha) Communities* in sustainable New Urban Regions.  Alpha Communities have: 1) A full spectrum of Jobs, 2) A Balanced of Affordable and Accessible Housing, 3) Comprehensive Agency, Enterprise and Institution Services, 4) Accessible Recreation and 5) Accessible Amenities including OpenSpace and Open Land. For complete summary of the work of E M Risse see www.emrisse.com * Words and phrases that are uniquely Capitalized in the work of SYNERGY are defined in GLOSSARY, PART 13 of TRILO-G. To some who have not read TRILO-G, these words may initially appear to be irregular capitalizations, they are not. For a listing of some uniquely Capitalized phrases in publications by SYNERGY, see the Amazon.com web pages for the books noted below.   PUBLICATIONS In addition to providing professional services, SYNERGY publishes books, reports and graphics. The Shape of the Future (ISBN 0-9678108-0-9), authored by SYNERGY principal E M Risse in 2000, documents that the many of human's most pressing problems have an overarching interconnection -- dysfunctional human settlement patterns. These patterns have a profound impact on citizens' economic, social and environmental well-being. Vol I of The Shape of the Future identifies Nine Fundamental Theses that frame contemporary civilization and articulates Five Natural Laws derived from the human settlement patterns that have evolved over the past 90 years. This book articulates the tool Regional Metrics and defines the New Urban Region, the fundamental building block of contemporary civilization. Vol II of The Shape of the Future lays out Six Overarching Strategies to evolve functional human settlement patterns.  If intelligently pursued, these strategies will resolve or mitigate many of society's most pressing problems and establish a sustainable trajectory for contemporary civilization. For more information on the book's content use the "Look Inside the Book" feature on The Shape of the Future web page at www.amazon.com TRILO-G is the second of two books by E M Risse that examine human settlement patterns. TRILO-G, published in 2010, picks up where The Shape of the Future left off. Together they provide a unified field theory of human settlement patterns. TRILO-G is composed of three Volumes. Vol I - FOUNDATIONS lays the ground work for understanding five key forces driving human settlement pattern dysfunction. Vol II - BRIDGES links the content of The Shape of the Future and FOUNDATIONS with contemporary issues and demonstrates the necessity of applying the tools laid out in Vol III - ACTION. Vol III - ACTION provides resources citizens can use to implement:   Fundamental Transformation of human settlement patterns Fundamental Transformation of governance structures. and Fundamental Transformation of economic systems. Vol III includes a summary of PROPERTY DYNAMICS, a citizen education initiative of A 1000 Friends of Virginia's Future and HANDBOOK. HANDBOOK, first published in 2001 as Handbook for Shaping a Viable Future, applied The Three-Step Process to a specific SubRegion.  HANDBOOK has been revised to apply the Third Way strategies in three steps to any Community, SubRegion of Region to evolve Balanced (Alpha) Communities. Vol III also includes GLOSSARY and 1,500 pages of resources that articulate the principles and theses found in both The Shape of the Future and TRILO-G. For more information on the book's content see the TRILO-G -- FOUNDATIONS, BRIDGES, ACTION web page at www.amazon.com In addition to these two books, SYNERGY has created a 20,000-image archive on human settlement patterns and has completed over 250 studies, reports and white papers as well as providing testimony and interpretive graphics.  Many of these resources are incorporated or summarized in Vol III of TRILO-G. During the 1990s SYNERGY held service marks for planning and educational services concerning New Urban Regions. Also see E M Risse Author?s Web Page at www.amazon.com Thank you for your interest in SYNERGY/Planning    CONTACT   For further information, please contact: SYNERGY/Planning 124 Derby Way, Suite 100 Warrenton, VA 20186-3031     Phone   540 351-1701 Fax       540 351-1701   e-mail  spirisse@aol.com  emrisse@emrisse.com Online  www.synergyplanninginc.com  www.emrisse.com