Community / Economic Development
Big Boxes Move Into The City
Retailers are adpating to urban areas.
Balancing Rural Lifestyles With A Modern Economy
The theme at Montana's annual state conference on smart growth, was how to blend economic prosperity with smart growth and land-use planning.
North Africa's Largest Urban Green Space
Bold project transforms a historic but decaying neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, into an impressive urban park.
Eminent Domain and Redevelopment
Is emiment domain a valuable redevelopment tool or a way for government to intimidate landowners?
The UK's First Business Improvement District
After more than a decade of study, the first Business Improvement District is approved in the United Kingdom; safety, environment, promotion and transport are priorities.
Commuters Get Lion's Share Of Inner City Jobs
The majority of better paying jobs in America's poor inner cities goes to commuters as opposed to local residents.
Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
PBS Frontline asks what is the real cost of Wal-Mart's famous 'everyday low prices'.
Do Ballparks Really Spur Revitalization?
What comes first, the brew pub or the stadium?
A Model For Community Entrepreneurship
Mercado La Paloma is an example of a successful program to stimulate small business ownership for dozens of mostly immigrant entrepreneurs.
Mall Industry Giants To Merge
General Growth Properties is acquiring well-known developer the Rouse Company.
The Art Of An Urban Wasteland
A new Atlanta exhibit chronicles the strange world of Chinas scavenger economy.
Malicious Gentrification In Atlanta?
New, wealthier residents could be using a neighborhood organization to push out older residents.
Seattle Region Experiencing A Building Boom
Seattle region commercial construction is roaring back to life, surprising developers, contractors and economists.
National Optimism About State Of Cities
MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton argues that Americans have much to be happy about the current state of U.S. cities.
Creating Economic Superclusters
Powerful urban universities are reshaping metropolitan culture and character.
Reinventing A Beleaguered Mill Town
How Kannapolis, N.C., is adjusting to the loss of thousands of textile jobs abroad.
Can Mill Towns In The U.S. South Be Saved?
Small factory towns across the South are threatened by globalization.
The Creative Class Backlash
An amused and exasperated Richard Florida explains that his theories are based on economic development principles.
Florentine Renaissance In Aurora, Colorado
Twenty-five years of redevelopment efforts in "Original Aurora", the downtown of Colorado's third largest city, are coming to fruition with an emerging arts district.
Kevin Starr's Seventh Volume On California
Kevin Starr has added a seventh volume to his history of the nation's most populous state.
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Gallatin County Department of Planning & Community Development
Heyer Gruel & Associates PA
JM Goldson LLC
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Jefferson Parish Government
Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Claremont