Community / Economic Development
Rebuilding New Orleans: Fiscal Conservatives and Visionaries
Fiscal Conservatives and visionaries need to work together to rebuild New Orleans.
Comparing New Orleans To Grand Forks
New Orleans can learn a lot from the flood rebuilding of Grand Forks in 1997.
Marshall Field's, Macy's and the Absentocracy
Can big business maintain local values, even as national and international conglomerates swallow up hometown companies?
The United States of Wal-Mart
In his irreverent new book, journalist John Dicker reveals the super-high social costs of Wal-Mart's super-low prices.
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.
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
