Community / Economic Development
The World's Best Enterprise Zone
Halliburton is moving its headquarters to Dubai. Could Dubai, with its world-class infrastructure and business-friendly environment, become the world's preferred destination for multinational corporations?
Salt Lake City Downtown on the Rise
A new 40-year plan for downtown Salt Lake was unveiled by the City's Chamber of Commerce.
Meet Me, For Dinner, In Downtown St. Louis
The city's efforts at urban renewal has sparked a wave of new downtown residents along sophisticated restaurants to feed them.
Rezoning L.A.'s Industrial Bones
Developers want to transform downtown L.A.'s warehouses, factories, and grimy commercial buildings to accommodate live-work spaces. Planners and activists want to stay the course -- they say needed jobs are at stake.
Cabrini Green's Dying Breath
Though only a few towers remain from Chicago's notorious Cabrini Green housing project, new and old problems persist.
Superstar Cities
Big cities pack a punch equal to some national economies. The fraction of high-income families in superstar cities is 43 percent higher than in average cities, and those cities' share of poor families is 11 percent lower.
Rising Real Estate Prices Pushing Out Portland Small Businesses
The city's attractiveness has bred gentrification of many neighborhoods, and small businesses and creative types are fleeing for cheaper pastures.
Downtown Revitalization Reinvigorates Urban Congregations
The new wave of residents in downtown Orlando are helping to resurrect long-time churches that never fled to the suburbs.
Can A 'Zipper Zone' Reconnect Intown Memphis?
A top architect is advocating the use of zoning and urban design to transform a key urban thoroughfare into a "zipper" bringing together many of the city's top assets and neighborhoods.
Urban Village: The Game
A Wayne State University professor has created an urban planning simulation game that allows Detroiters to change a neighborhood along Mack Avenue, one of the city's major thoroughfares.
Is Downtown Renewal A 'Fool's Errand'?
The Economist reports on how San Jose, CA and Las Vegas, NV, have tried -- and failed -- to revive their downtowns.
The Nation's Up-And-Coming Neighborhoods
A list of neighborhoods heading towards gentrification in the nation's 10 largest cities aims to give homebuyers and investors a chance to get in before prices skyrocket.
Services Are Lacking For The Rural Poor
Protests and violence have erupted in China's rural areas, where many of the country's poorest people struggle to find jobs. The government has pledged to improve spending to help provide for the rural poor and improve access to public services.
Governor Calls For Help In Rural Job Growth
The governor of North Carolina has called on a state grant program to dedicate more funding to encourage job growth in rural areas.
Training Asia's Future Urban Planners And Leaders
The Asian Development Bank has partnered with the Singapore government on a new educational initiative to help improve conditions for poorer residents of the region's cities.
A Unified Northeast Corridor
Northeastern states need to collaborate on regional initiatives to compete globally.
UNOP Plan Works For New Orleans
Responding to recent criticism, Robert B. Olshansky and Lewis D. Hopkins, professors of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, argue that the United New Orleans Plan gets a lot more things right than wrong.
Portlanders Speak Out On Planning Vision
In Portland, Oregon, results of a survey about the mayor's long-term planning vision reveal that many in the city feel development is pricing out the poor, and that policies cater more to encouraging economic development than to resident's interests.
Wal-Mart Withdraws Supercenter Plans
Wal-Mart has dropped plans to build a "supercenter" store in the East Bay city of Livermore, which has joined many other Northern California cities that have used local powers to prevent the retailer from moving in.
A Plan For Helping Second-Tier Cities Prosper
Commentator Neal Peirce argues that the nation's second-tier cities can indeed grow and prosper in partnership with leading metro areas, if we only give them a chance.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
