Community / Economic Development

The City of Portland, Maine, continues to struggle with the decision of whether or not to renovate or rebuild the 28 year old Cumberland County Civic Center.

October 27, 2006 - Portland Press Herald

As a formerly small town grows into a city, it looks to the creation of a performing arts theater to bring it back above the surface of the flood of suburban blight.

October 27, 2006 - The Toronto Star

When an architectural firm decided to locate their office in the Tenderloin District in San Francisco, residents vowed to keep the gritty integrity of their neighborhood from changing.

October 26, 2006 - Wall Street Journal via The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Urban planners in New York City are proposing that the historic 42nd Street be transformed into a pedestrian mall that would cross the entire city.

October 26, 2006 - amNew York

Why is Silicon Valley the birthplace of successful startups?

October 25, 2006 - The New York Times

Nonprofit organizations are offering foreclosure prevention programs to assist people when their mortgages have become unmanageable.

October 25, 2006 - Shelterforce Magazine

A plan to revive downtown Cleveland by creating an design district that would make the city a center of consumer-product design is attracting the support of local experts and officials.

October 25, 2006 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Alleys -- considered by many to be dangerous or neglected, can become a fertile ground for 'organic new urbanism', says architect David Winslow.

October 24, 2006 - The San Francisco Chronicle

With its emphasis on good food, sustainable living, and local community, the Slow City movement is spreading across Europe. But what potential is there for the movement to make the jump across the Atlantic?

October 23, 2006 - Heike Mayer, Paul L. Knox

After spending 72 hours in New Orleans, Charles Shaw finds a city in "desperation."

October 22, 2006 - Scoop

A $1.5 billion dollar mixed use development proposed along the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been voted down by the city's planning commission after it refused to approve a zoning variance for 30 story condos.

October 21, 2006 - St. Paul Pioneer Press

The business of making loans to poor people in underdeveloped countries is entering a critical period of development. Foundations and other non-governmental groups have shown the private sector that money can be made by lending to these populations.

October 20, 2006 - Knowledge at Wharton

Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey interviews real estate guru Chris Leinberger on developing walkable urbanity in Detroit.

October 20, 2006 - Model-D

Policies and initiatives based on class and race are essential in altering the unequal patterns of opportunity in cities and suburbs.

October 20, 2006 - Shelterforce Magazine

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to buy a massive Chinese "hypermarket" for close to $1 billion, making Wal-Mart the largest food and department store network in China.

October 19, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal

For decades Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village has provided some of the most affordable housing in Manhattan. However, the completion of a $5.4 billion dollar real estate deal, the largest in American history, has residents worried about the future.

October 19, 2006 - The New York Times

The city's mayor invites the University of Pennsylvania to work with City Planning Commission to facilitate public planning process for the Delaware River waterfront.

October 19, 2006 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philip Langdon recalls mixed-feelings about Reston's unfinished dream.

October 19, 2006 - New Urban News

The California-based design company's "Smart Space" practice takes on the staid world of infrastructure, zoning and public process.

October 18, 2006 - Business Week

Memphis and Miami may be leading the charge to rethinking medical districts with New Urbanism.

October 18, 2006 - New Urban News