The Lean Scan: Activating Community Assets

Most communities have assets hidden within that are not utilized or underutilized. A Lean Scan identifies these assets and determines the reasons that they are not used efficiently. The Lean Scan helps to reveal possible partnerships between built, financial, social, and natural resources that could become the foundation for incremental, low-cost improvements for the community. The Lean Scan offers a scaffolding for communities to identify their shared and underutilized assets for collective mobilization. This iterative process produces a report that can guide communities and neighborhoods in other Lean Urbanism strategies - the Action Plan and Pink Zone.