The Brookings Institution

This Brookings policy brief by Martin Wachs outlines the complex series of relationships that define federal, state, and local roles in financing transportation systems.

Focusing resources on key neighborhoods will increase the effectiveness of revitalization efforts, but the city must ensure all residents share in the benefits.

In Michigan as elsewhere, fiscal distress accentuates the need for reforming wasteful development patterns.

A new report examines the relationship between cities' decisions regardingland redevelopment and their underlying fiscal structures.

This new study reports on the results of an extensive survey of state legislative and program initiatives that can boost cities' to redevelop vacant and abandoned properties.

This survey, the lastest in the Brookings Transportation Reform Series, describes the history, yield, and sometimes slanted state use of taxes on motor fuels--the "gas tax." It urges reforming the tax before hiking it.

The Miami region epitomizes America's newest metropolitan form, the 'edgeless city.'

This paper examines the spatial pattern of transportation in Ohio and compares them to indicators of transportation demand and need.

A new book probes America's newest metropolitan form by examining the growth and spatial structure of office development in 13 large U.S. markets.

This commentary in the Springfield (MO) News-Leader argues thatSpringfield's economic resilience depends on the city setting astatewide example of growth management in the Show Me State.

How Ohio's highway spending shortchanges cities and suburbs.

This paper on Ohio's transportation spending places a disportionate fiscal burden on urban jurisdictions while supporting the spread of development into exurban and rural areas.

This brief details the importance of TEA-21 reauthorization for the nation's metro areas and offers a comprehensive policy agenda for Congress' work on the bill.

Metropolitan areas that understand the changing nature of business--and respond nimbly to its demands--will create the best environments for firm and economic growth.

This paper probes the definition and use of Dillon's rule and finds that it neither prohibits nor hinders action to limit sprawl.

The suburbs of major metropolitan areas are aging faster than the nation as a whole.

An Op-Ed by Bruce Katz in the Baltimore Sun calls on Congress to provide states and cities necessary fiscal relief and to reverse its drift toward unfunded mandates and programmatic inflexibility.

This report brings together a large body of new information about both the nature and costs of development patterns in the "Show-Me" State.

Bruce Katz identifies the key challenges the smart-growth movement needs to address if it is going to succeed.

This paper by Carol O'Cleireacain and Alice Rivlin proposes that the federal government offset several fiscal handicaps that hinder the nation's capital by providing a continuing contribution to the budget of the city of Washington.