Community / Economic Development
Towns: Small is Beautiful
Searching for a sense of community, sharing, and a connection with humanity? Move to a small town.
A Tough Year For Wal-Mart
But surely there are more corporate retailers to criticize in 2006?
The Berlin Wall Of Downtown St. Louis
The failed St. Louis Centre mall has divided development patterns, and boosters are waiting for an outside investor to make his move.
New Orlean's Massive And Controversial Teardown Effort
The fight over what, where and when to build -- or demolish -- in New Orleans gets muddier by the day.
Community Policing Advances In Chicago
The Chicago Police Department is getting serious about community involvement in neighborhood safety, coinciding with the city's murder rate leveling off.
Pretty, Vacant Building Seeks Creative, Wealthy Owner
The South Portland Armory's streamlined 1940s design and roomy interior make it ideal for a museum or arts space -- so why is no one buying?
How Starbucks May Help Save South Central
Corporate retailers and the American ghetto: a successful combination?
To Rebuild Or Not To Rebuild?
Former residents of the Lower Ninth Ward face crucial decisions about their own future and that of their homes.
Neighborhoods Could Return To Marshland In New Orleans
The city's official blueprint for redevelopment will call for shrinking the footprint of New Orleans.
D.C. Cigarettes Up In Smoke
Even before approval of an official ban, nearly 200 bars and restaurants have prohibited smoking on their own.
Power in Numbers
New alliances and collaborations are winning community benefits agreements that dramatically improve the lives of low-income residents.
Urban Universities Investing In Their Neighborhoods Is A US Trend
After sowing investment in their locales, a growing number of universities in urban centers are reaping vibrant near-campus districts.
Toronto:The Accidental City
Why is Canada's largest city also its most insecure?
A Ten-Step Program For Wal-Mart
Planners are not the only ones figuring out how to respond to the challenge of 'the Biggest Box Ever Built.'
Illinois Wrestles With Eminent Domain
This January Illinois lawmakers and citizens are set to do battle over the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the use of eminent domain for private economic development.
El Paso Looks To New Urbanism To Guide Future Growth
With unprecedented growth expected at Fort Bliss El Paso, Texas, is expected to grow by 50,000 - 60,000 people in the next six years.
World Trade Center Redevelopment to Have Residential Component
With a decisive win in his re-election, Mayor Bloomberg spoke to his priorities for his final term as chief of the the US's largest city in his second inaugural address on New Year's Day: Affordable housing and the World Trade Center.
Here Comes The Neighborhood
A non-profit affordable housing developer sets an example as one of the first to move into an impoverished neighborhood.
Absentee Landlord Properties Auctioned Off In Effort To Revitalize
In Detroit, a new program sues absentee landlords to force them to renovate their property -- unlike citations, property owners face the threat of losing their property, which can then be put up for auction on a county website.
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
