Community / Economic Development
Tornado Spurs Downtown's Rebirth/Expansion
A new outlook and 50 new business have emerged downtown since the storm of 1999 in Clarksville, TN.
Transforming Turin
Transportation emerges as a key issue as Turin, Italy, transform itself for the Winter Olympics.
Cash In The Inner City
A recent study reveals the market potential of middle-income households in the nation's inner cities.
Calgary's Conundrum
Will the East Village's innovative make-over hurt the city's poor?
America's 50 Hottest Cities
Expansion Management Magazine will publish its list of the nation's 50 'hottest cities' in its January, 2005 issue.
What Is The OC?
A review of literature -– some scathing -– on the complexities of Orange County, California.
How To Help?
Architects and planners are eager to help tsunami victims rebuild. But Western solutions are not always the best.
Designing Denver
City bigwigs review the most successful planning efforts in Denver history.
Wal-Mart Targets Poor Communities
While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.
A Secret Community With Secret Crimes
Philadelphia's Mexican immigrant population isn't reporting rampant crime.
Austin: The Year In Review
2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.
How Big Businessmen Saved The City
A review of the founding and development of the 50-year-old Greater Baltimore Committee.
Second Act For A Historic D.C. Neighborhood
Rennovated theater is the first of many new developments in Columbia Heights.
The Link Between Teen Births and Poverty
A 40-percent decline in teen births since 1991 has reduced problems of poverty in Baltimore.
Washington D.C. Area Economic Forecast
Even as it slows down from rapid growth in 2004, the economy of the Washington D.C. area will expand faster than the rest of the nation.
'Mom And Pop' Motels Will Disappear
Small motels along the "Space Coast" are disappearing.
Five City Design Resolutions For A Better Place
Jeff Speck offers advice for city mayors and citizens who want to build better places.
Arts Key To City's Revitalization
Plans for downtown Riverside hope to create a "cultural hot spot" that will draw from Inland Southern California's growing population.
Philadelphia's Blight Fight Working
Philadelphia Mayor Street's multimillion-dollar effort to reduce blight in city neighborhoods appears to be working.
New Utah Rail Stations Offer Hope For Economic Development
New rail stations to open in 2007 will offer residents of towns north of Salt Lake City new economic options.
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
