I can't speak to how well the project has been doing, but just last week I happened to listen to his 2014 Long Now Foundation talk on this project. I didn't even know who he was before this talk, which was simply next in my podcast feed for this subscription. Maybe the ideas he espoused aren't universal to US areas, but I found plenty worth mulling.

https://longnow.org/seminars/02014/apr/22/helping-revitalize...