Community / Economic Development
New York's Nassau County economic development agencies operated as though they were exempt from financial rules, according to a county audit.
Newsday
Some residents say big box stores offer convenience but local businesses are worried.
Times Union
Shanghai's approach to city development is built around massive and expensive projects.
The Economist
Despite concerns, majority of McCook County residents support the idea of a new town for signers.
Mitchell Republic
Metro Atlanta communities are finally planning with greenspace, pedestrians, and mixed-use in mind.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steven Malanga challenges Richard Florida's theory that bohemian culture as economic development strategy works.
Wall St. Journal
North and South Carolina are aggressively diversifying their economies to survive a devastating loss of the region's manufacturing base.
Wall St. Journal
Not only are U.S. cities no longer attracting the world's mobile intellectual talent, they are losing their creative class to foreign cities.
AlterNet
Saving Main Street takes patience, but it's worth it say Neal Peirce.
The Washington Post Writers Group
Neighbourhood BIA Survives Suburban Flight and SARS Panic
The Toronto Star
Pennsylvania and California -- one old economy, one new economy. But both are seriously threatened by the dramatic changes taking place in the American economy.
Smart City
A quarterly survey objectively measures how Australian’s feel about a range of personal and national issues. Those results have been grouped to produce a ranking of capital cities.
Sunday Times
How one innovative economic development program is challenging stereotypes, and providing job training and housing rehab along the way.
Shelterforce Online
Is innovation the only important factor in a successful urban strategy?
Joel Kotkin
Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.
Edmonton Journal
Study finds that smart growth policies are good for construction jobs.
Good Jobs First
Will prime minister Paul Martin honour his commitment to share federal gas taxes with Canada's cities?
Macleans
Private industry is financing an 'Omaha By Design' effort to improve city's design standards and guidelines.
Omaha World Herald
St. Louis' older suburbs are copying traditional city neighborhoods in an effort to attract residents.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Neal Peirce utilizes the arrival of Wal-mart in Plymouth, NH to illustrate how independent retailers and 'main streets' survive in the face of big-box retailing.
National League Of Cities
