Neighborhood Revitalization Stabilization

Community Involvement Influenced by Anarchy

This Big City team looks at "small places of anarchy" in Toyko that has taken root in DIY Gardening, Collaborative Mental Mapping and FIXing the Neighborhood.

7 September 2011 - 1:00pm

This Big City

Community-Supported Businesses on the Rise

Stacy Mitchell reports on the growing trend of micro-financing, where small business people turn to the local community to get the funding they need to open restaurants or small shops.

31 August 2010 - 1:00pm

Yes! Magazine

Revitalization of Hannibal Square

The city in partnership with Traditional Neighborhoods Inc., a not-for-profit organization of developers, initiated a charrette providing the vision for the revitalization plan of Hannibal Square. The plan suggested a number of community improvements designed to rebuild infrastructure, increase affordable housing, and encourage new mixed use development. In a tribute to the area's history the city planned for a Heritage Center, which would focus on the contributions of Winter Park's African American residents.

5 March 2010 - 10:15am

Charles Buki

Opportunities (and Mindfulness) of the Emerging HUD Blueprint

Mon, 05/18/2009 - 04:18

By any measure, the HUD that is now emerging from the shadows of eight years of amateur hour, is focused on the right things: markets, coherent roles for public and private sector alike, and energy efficiency. Indeed the emphasis on "urbanism" and "regionalism" illustrates that this administration "gets it".

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Cities Struggling to Work With Stabilization Funds

Congress has approved a $4 billion federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program, but as the funding trickles down to cities, many find the money too tight to solve many of their problems.

7 December 2008 - 7:00am

The Wall Street Journal

Charles Buki