Community / Economic Development

A host of new problems faces Michigan in the 21st century, yet many state leaders have outmoded strategies for success in economic and community development.

March 21, 2006 - Michigan Land Use Institute

The Dubai Forum for Sustainable Urban Development draws scholars from around the world to discuss best practices for development.

March 21, 2006 - AME Info

From eminent domain to "condofication", Planetizen editors outline the top 10 planning issues from 2005.

March 21, 2006 - Abhijeet Chavan

Four years after becoming the first town to be sold on EBay, the 83-acre Bridgeville, California, population 24, is up for sale again, this time for $1.75 million. [Thanks to Kelly Koldus for the correction.]

March 20, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

Although a flurry of new bills would restrict eminent domain powers, Baltimore city officials support the practice, which resulted in successful projects like the Inner Harbor.

March 20, 2006 - Baltimore City Paper

A plan to spruce up D.C.'s Anacostia River has some residents anxious. Slated for a grand renewal project... the area stands at the juncture of poverty and opportunity.

March 18, 2006 - Grist Magazine

Inner-city Baltimore rehabbers couldn't contend with the local drug market, yet they believe the city's Selling City-Owned Property Efficiently led just as much to their departure.

March 18, 2006 - Baltimore City Paper

The redevelopment of Houston from four perspectives: the developer, the artist, the power broker, and the former mayor.

March 17, 2006 - Governing Magazine

No, according to an op-ed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which lists alternative strategies for preserving affordable housing.

March 16, 2006 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Planners hope that Detroit's Airport City will take off, lifting the fate of Detroit, and even Michigan, with it.

March 16, 2006 - Detroit Metro Times

In his annual state of the city address, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick looks to build on the success of last summer's MLB All-Star Game, Superbowl XL, and the recent boom in downtown housing starts.

March 16, 2006 - The Detroit Free Press

40 years after the height of urban renewal, politics and real estate market swings have caused a prime 13-acre oceanfront parcel to remain vacant in Hull, Massachusetts. What gives?

March 15, 2006 - The Boston Globe

As California's housing boom continues, finding sufficient land to enable businesses to expand is becoming increasingly challenging. The potential impacts on California's economy will be dramatic.

March 14, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

It's not okay for government to evict property owners in the name of "over-reaching redevelopment," a Los Angeles Times editorial warns.

March 14, 2006 - Abhijeet Chavan

Can you say Super Transit Oriented Development?

March 14, 2006 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Kalamazoo, Michigan, has developed a unique plan for revitalization: free college tuition for any student who enters the school system by ninth grade.

March 14, 2006 - Wall Street Journal via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Los Angeles Times editorial supports property rights in a dispute between a landowner and a group that has created a sustainable community garden in Los Angeles' South Central area.

March 13, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

A recent controversy in Montreal might shed light on how to tame gentrification.

March 13, 2006 - Maisonneuve

Michigan's governor rewards six older metro Detroit communities for successful completion of the Michigan Suburbs Alliance Redevelopment Ready Communities Initiative.

March 12, 2006 - Oakland Press

From East St. Louis to Louisville, Kentucky, cities are beginning to realize visions of riverfront glory.

March 11, 2006 - The Baltimore Sun