Community / Economic Development
Using Schools To Revitalize Communities
So how does government help build stronger neighborhoods? Start by building community anchors: schools, libraries, parks and police and fire stations.
A New Community 3 Miles Off California's Coast
A new company proposes to locate 600 foreign software engineers on a cruise ship moored three miles off the California coast.
Quarries Get Reuse As Housing
Quarry sites around the Philadelphia area are being purchased for their redevelopment opportunities.
Coastal Maine Village Eyes Brownfield Redevelopment
Town ready for a big change after gradually losing the property tax revenues that the Maine Yankee nuclear power plan had generated for so many years.
Network Organizing: A Strategy For Building Community Engagement
In weak market cities where cynicism and dysfunction have become the norm, it takes a different kind of organizing to bring people together to demand change.
Brooklyn's Identity Crisis
The borough, which 'once epitomized working class America,' faces intense gentrification.
What Will New York City Gain By Hosting The Olympics?
Lessons learned from two ambitious World's Fairs hosted by New York City.
West Side Story
Does a stadium have a place in a city's urban revitalization effort?
Is Your Region Entrepreneurial?
The Innovation-Entrepreneurship NEXUS, which includes the complete list of cities and their rank on the Regional Entrepreneurship Index,
Finding That Big-City Feel In Iowa
Hawkeyes discover the appeal of an urban lifestyle.
Boise Is Northwest's Third Largest City
Boise locals find bad, good in Treasure Valley's inevitable growth.
Phoenix: A Great Place To Live?
The fastest growing city in the US gets no love from city officials.
Gentrification May Improve Neighborhoods
Study suggests that low-income residents may benefit from an influx of more affluent neighbors.
Community College Towns Impact On Downtown Redevelopment
Community colleges in some northeast US states are playing greater roles in the redevelopment of their downtown areas.
Massachusetts' Population Drop Threatens Environment
Exodus from Massachusetts is bad news for urban vitality and services such as mass transit.
Metropolis From Scratch
In South Korea, construction teams are at work on an entirely new city for international business that is expected to have half a million residents within 5 years.
Does San Francisco Have Room For Industry?
With skyrocketing residential prices and continuing gentrification, are San Francisco's industrial areas (and their jobs) fated to disappear?
Is the CDBG Program America's Worst Urban Initiative?
Is the Bush administration right to put the community-development block grant out of its misery?
Inland Empire Leads California's Population Growth
Riverside County's growth rate of 5% ranked first in California, and its population now stands at just under 1.9 million.
Incentives For Businesses: Good Or Bad?
Are Florida's business incentives good for taxpayers?
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.
Tyler Technologies
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
