Community / Economic Development
Business Jumping On Smart Growth Bandwagon
A new report highlights corporations that incorporate smart growth into their business strategies.
The Wal-Mart Effect
AlterNet offers a primer on the potentially negative impacts of Wal-Mart, using Chicago as a case study.
New York Times Reviews Jane Jacobs New Book
The New York Times Book Review calls Jacob's new book "extremely sloppy" and "haphazard."
Massachusetts Rolls Back Urban Renewal Restrictions
A new law allows for cities to use eminent domain without first proving a neighborhood is 'blighted.'
Pre-Emptive Strike In The Heart Of Suburban Big-Box Retail
With the support of supermarket chain, unions, Montgomery County Maryland introduces anti-Supercenter legislation.
Critics Wary Of Houston's New Form Of Annexation
Planners around Texas are worried that Houston's deals with municipal utility districts will hamper regional development strategies.
Books And The City
Borders committed to opening urban bookstores in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit join Washington, other cities.
Alabama Catches On To New Urbanism
After years of coastal sprawl, Alabama's beaches finally see a trio of walkable, mixed-use communities.
Report: Wal-Mart's Growth Fueled By Taxpayer Dollars
A study details how retail giant Wal-Mart uses taxpayer dollars to fuel its growth.
Wal-Mart Gets More Than $1 Billion In Govt. Subsidies
How Wal-Mart benefited from more than $1 billion in government subsidies.
Former Industrial Ghost-Town Becomes Sweden's Film Capital
Trollhattan, once faced with 20% unemployment, remodeled its abandoned factories into movie studios, drawing new investment from around the world.
S.F. Mayor Goes Door-To-Door For Suggestions
Under "Project Connect" one hundred city workers will canvass the city's poorest neighborhoods to find out what people really need.
King Of Sprawl
Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution summarizes the challenges faced by a region on the rise.
A (Super)market Failure
Why are inner city residents paying more for groceries?
New Book Explores 1960s Urban Renewal 'Root Shock'
Columbia professor Mindy Thompson Fullilove explores the painful results of post-World War II projects on African-Americans.
Town Battles Native American Developments
Fess Parker, TV's 'Davy Crockett,' and the Chumash Indians hope to turn Santa Ynez into a vacation paradise. Locals fear a loss of community as the Chumash can ignore zoning through federal law.
Energy Costs Strain Nation's Poorest
According to a new study, nearly half of households at 50% the federal poverty level reported skipping food or medicine just to pay for their residential energy consumption.
Norfolk Takes Back Its Heart
A success story in an old Navy town.
Citistates Report: Boston Unbound
Boston has all of the right ingredients to become on of the most rewarding places on earth to live -- if the city can get over it's 'assumed superiority'.
A Tour Of Immaculate Suburbia
Follow 'Patio Dad' and 'Realtor Mom' into their blissful mini-McMansion with a review of David Brook's new book, "On Paradise Drive."
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
