Plan New Hampshire-The Foundation for Shaping the Built Environment

Plan nh, founded in 1989, has a mission to foster excellence in the planning, design and development of new hampshire's built environment. We raise awareness of the link between the built environment and the health and vitality of our communities. Our membership is comprised of architects, engineers, landscape architects, planners, builders and real estate professionals, financial and insurance firms and others with an interest in how we build, what we build and where and its impact on our daily lives. Plan nh has a vision of an economically, socially, and vibrant new hampshire in which: our changing context (weather and climate changes, shifting demographics, new ways of thinking about food and energy sources, more) is taken into consideration during planning and related decisions. Towns and neighborhoods balance necessary growth with preserving their unique senses of place. Compact, mixed-use areas are encouraged. There are reasonable, affordable choices for where to live and how to