As the housing market collapsed and gasoline prices spiked in 2007, many planners may have read Cornell University law professor Eduardo Penalver’s essay in the Washington Post with more than a little satisfaction.
Urban Revitalization
Super Bowl Bid Results In Community Revitalization
Innovative Public/Private Model to Revitalize a Downtown
Music Gives New Life to Brownfield
Stagnant Sales Hamper Chicago's Revitalization Efforts
Using Adaptive Reuse as a Tool for Urban Redevelopment
Intercity Bus Travel Outstrips Air and Rail in Growth
Transit Transformation in New Orleans
A Good Mayor is Hard to Find
Recession Chic in Braddock, PA
Commuting By Escalator
Revitalization, Without Gentrification
A Little Green Goes A Long Way
Big Ideas Take Hold of Detroit

Tea Leaves in Cleveland
Questions about the capacity of local organizations, the wisdom of economic development efforts in the hands of anemic CDCs. Neither wholly right nor wrong, the piece put on the table a necessary skunk: was it sensible to try to revitalize the inner city using the tools and thinking then at hand?
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Phoenix Hopes for Light Rail Revitalization

Urban Renewal: Tragedies and Ironies Yesterday and Today
One of the most interesting things that I have learned in school thus far is the history of the urban renewal program. As a budding urban planner, I have often used the term “urban renewal” interchangeably with “urban revitalization” to describe the process of neighborhood improvement via economic and housing development. Regardless of the term I used, I was very clear that revitalization – or renewal – was a catch-22. The implementation of business and housing developments would jumpstart a neighborhood deemed blighted and consequently, only affluent residents could afford to enjoy the amenities of the revitalized neighborhood.






















