Community / Economic Development
Fighting Crime With Design
Law enforcement in Sacramento, California are using urban design to reduce crime in the city.
Detroit Expands Casinos For More Cash
Desperate for jobs and tax revenue, the City of Detroit has permitted its three original casino operators to build new larger complexes.
Boise Reconsiders Landlord Status
City officials in Boise, Idaho, are considering a liquidation of properties the city owns and operates as affordable housing. The costs of keeping the housing available is becoming unaffordable for the city.
Street Vendors Booted From Mexico City
Mexico City police forced street vendors from nearly 100 streets recently in an effort to clean up the city. But the vendors vow to return.
Miami's Botched Foreign Trade Zone Development
What could have been an economic development homerun for Miami's Wynwood neighborhood has turned out to be a miserable failure. Nonetheless, hope remains that new ownership can restore the site's promising potential.
New Orleans Recovery Plan Scaled Back
Officials in New Orleans have released a scaled-back version of the recovery plan the city council approved earlier this spring. This lighter version of the plan focuses on removing blight, and building affordable apartments.
The Physical Footprint Of The World's Biggest Retailers
This graph from Good shows the acreage of some of the world's biggest retailers, including McDonald's, 7-11, and Wal-Mart.
Hudson Yards Development Will Bring Big Things To New York
As design proposals come in for the Hudson Yards development site in Manhattan, Peter Slatin writes that this project more than any other has the potential to bolster the economic power of New York City in a huge way.
Is Community-Based Planning On The Rise In Manhattan?
Opposition to Columbia University's 17-acre expansion plan reveals the good and bad about the city's community planning movement.
Locals Displaced By Tourism In Mayan Riviera
The tourism industry is booming along the Mayan Riviera on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Many are worried that the ever-increasing supply of hotels and the flood of tourists will displace most of the area's local residents and hurt the environment.
Staten Island Sees Flood Of Hipsters
As more of the "creative class" moves to Staten Island, the area enjoys a boost in hipness.
A Working Class Neighborhood Battle With Foreclosure
In the struggling city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures are threatening the community's stability and the longterm viability of the city's minority and working class neighborhoods.
What's Behind Boise's Success
This article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer looks at the conditions that have made Boise one of the country's most successful and thriving cities.
Resurrecting The Mall
While Canada's enclosed shopping malls are aging, developers are finding new and profitable ways of redeveloping them.
New York Suburbs Lure TOD For Revitalization
Officials in suburban New York towns are putting more effort into luring developers to build housing near their transit stations -- a revitalization method that has shown success around the country.
Italian Cities Are Slowing Down
More and more Italian cities are getting on board the "Slow City" movement, from the big to the tiny.
APA Lists Best North American Neighborhoods
APA has published a list of its "Top Ten Neighborhoods". The list tends towards the coasts, but includes two inland outliers.
Time For A Vision In Little Saigon
After about 30 years of organic developments, Little Saigon, also named "the capital of Vietnamese America", is seeking a planning and architecture vision.
Housing Slowdown Impacts Baltimore's Rebirth
The housing bubble helped the city spur redevelopment of its central core. With the downturn, officials wonder if Baltimore can hold onto the progress it made towards revitalization.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
