With this project, we seek to add historical and philosophical depth to the theoretical foundations for critical service learning and offer a philosophical framework that allows for a critical pedagogy of place. Lewis Mumford's Regional Survey is offered as a means to augment Deweyan democratic education. Regional Survey positions students out in their regions both as a way to learn about, participate in, and to learn to care about it. By placing students in the community through critical service learning, the potential is great to create a necessary critical pedagogy of place, leading to individual and community transformation.