Community / Economic Development

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

Robert Sameulson is uneasy about advocating a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border but believes it may be a way to curb illegal immigration.

March 10, 2006 - The Washington Post Writers Group

The wireless internet access areas encourage users to emerge from their homes and go online in more public places.

March 10, 2006 - BBC News

Plans involve razing parts of Delray, one of the poorest white slums in the country.

March 10, 2006 - Detroit News via Chicago Tribune

Baseball team owners are having less and less success marketing their teams in new cities, or generating public funding for stadium construction. What gives?

March 10, 2006 - Governing

As one of the "oldest" states in terms of the average age of its inhabitants, Iowa and its small cities are turning their marketing campaigns toward women, in an attempt to stop "brain drain".

March 10, 2006 - USA Today

A rise of new money and power groups in China has widened the gap between rich and poor, urban and rural.

March 9, 2006 - The Christian Science Monitor