Community / Economic Development
A Blueprint To Rebuild New Orleans
There are three basic needs that must be met in order for New Orleans to come back -- the city's infrastructure, reviving its economy and resettling its population.
Redesigning New Orleans
New Orleans was a deeply flawed city before Katrina, and now, evacuees are stating they won't move back unless changes are made.
Smart Growth Experts Debate How To Rebuild New Orleans
With more than half of the city still underwater, smart-growth experts say now's an ideal time to rethink the entire infrastructure of the city.
Smart Growth and National Security
Hurricane Katrina exposes the urgent need to fix America’s obsolete way of life.
Rhode Island Urges School Districts To Plan Smarter
Rhode Island Department of Education promotes 'Smart Growth' principles in School Facilities Planning Guidelines.
Smart Growth Isn't The Answer For Sydney
An opinion columnist argues that smart growth techniques will only hurt Sydney in the long run, turning it into a 'rat's nest.'
Milwaukee Looking To Replicate Atlanta's Economic Growth
Led by the revolutionary Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta is the city to beat for luring new businesses -- a feat that Milwaukee hopes to best.
A Hidden World Within The Modern Megacity
'Shadow Cities,' a book by Robert Neuwirth. explores the world of illegal urban squatters in some of the world's largest megacities.
Gentrification of A Working Waterfront
In order to preserve its working waterfront, the City of Portland, ME, must balance the pressures of urban redevelopment in the city's thriving Old Port district with the needs of the fishermen who have worked there for centuries.
An Interview With Tulane's Architecture Dean About New Orleans
Reed Kroloff, the head of Tulane's architecture program talks about rebuilding the Big Easy, and how to preserve the city's 'fine grain'.
Katrina Lays Bare Superfund Woes
Concern rises that storm may have compromised cleanup of toxic sites around New Orleans -- and created new ones.
An International Perspective On Rebuilding New Orleans
The BBC reports that city officials plan to rethink the urban geography of New Orleans in order to make it stronger and better than ever.
Katrina As An Extension of the US Environmental Justice Problem
What's behind the socio-economic disparity in environmental planning -- and emergency response to environmental disasters? Slow Katrina evacuation fits pattern of injustice during crises.
What Californa's 1994 Earthquake Can Teach New Orleans
The former governor of California offers advice about rebuilding to politicians in New Orleans, based on his experience with Los Angeles' 1994 earthquake.
Forced Migration May Ultimately Help The Poor
Mark Alan Hughes predicts some of NOLA's poor will be better off in a couple years as a result of forced relocation to more prosperous places.
The Incredible Shrinking Box
Retailers shape stores to fit urban settings.
Planning For An Overnight Boomtown
Thousands of New Orleans businesses and residents have relocated to the 'New Baton Rouge', 75 miles to the northwest.
What FEMA Might Learn From Wal-Mart?
Some nimble private companies -- like Wal-Mart and The Sun Herald -- have contingency plans in place for a hurricane.
A Sad Truth -- New Orleans Cannot Survive Forever
Despite the rhetoric about rebuilding, there are far too many economic, social and land use forces at work that will prevent New Orleans from returning to its former glory, writes Joel Garreau.
Planning for a Disaster-Resistant Community
APA publishes a workbook from the Planning for a Disaster-Resistant Community AICP Workshop at the 2005 APA National Planning Conference.
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.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association
