Community / Economic Development
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 China’s ‘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.
Seattle: The New Biotech Hub
Billionaire Paul Allen suggests that Seattle is destined to become the nation's biotechnology hub.
Fighting Off The Chains In Chicago
Traditional urban business district demonstrates the economic impact of local retail, restaurant, and service businesses.
Transforming Slums Into Garden Neighborhoods
A pilot project will plant gardens in some of the world's worst slums in an effort to create urban agriculture centers.
Local Shops Build Healthy Economies
Chicago business district releases impact study and policy proposals.
From Rust Belt To Arts Mecca
Pittsburgh reaps the benefits of its 20-year investment in a downtown cultural district -- and in the vitality of its young people.
Rise Of The Ethnoburbs
Suburbs are becoming more diverse. These "ethnoburbs" are changing the social, cultural and political fabric of our cities in a profound way.
Big-boxes Enter The Big Apple
K-Mart, Home Depot, and Target are now targeting New York City with their eye on expanding to other cities.
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
