Community / Economic Development

Some residents say big box stores offer convenience but local businesses are worried.

January 22, 2004 - Times Union

Shanghai's approach to city development is built around massive and expensive projects.

January 22, 2004 - The Economist

Despite concerns, majority of McCook County residents support the idea of a new town for signers.

January 21, 2004 - Mitchell Republic

Metro Atlanta communities are finally planning with greenspace, pedestrians, and mixed-use in mind.

January 20, 2004 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Steven Malanga challenges Richard Florida's theory that bohemian culture as economic development strategy works.

January 20, 2004 - Wall St. Journal

North and South Carolina are aggressively diversifying their economies to survive a devastating loss of the region's manufacturing base.

January 20, 2004 - Wall St. Journal

Not only are U.S. cities no longer attracting the world's mobile intellectual talent, they are losing their creative class to foreign cities.

January 20, 2004 - AlterNet

Saving Main Street takes patience, but it's worth it say Neal Peirce.

January 20, 2004 - The Washington Post Writers Group

Neighbourhood BIA Survives Suburban Flight and SARS Panic

January 19, 2004 - The Toronto Star

Pennsylvania and California -- one old economy, one new economy. But both are seriously threatened by the dramatic changes taking place in the American economy.

January 18, 2004 - Smart City

A quarterly survey objectively measures how Australian’s feel about a range of personal and national issues. Those results have been grouped to produce a ranking of capital cities.

January 18, 2004 - Sunday Times

How one innovative economic development program is challenging stereotypes, and providing job training and housing rehab along the way.

January 17, 2004 - Shelterforce Online

Is innovation the only important factor in a successful urban strategy?

January 16, 2004 - Joel Kotkin

Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.

January 15, 2004 - Edmonton Journal

Study finds that smart growth policies are good for construction jobs.

January 15, 2004 - Good Jobs First

Will prime minister Paul Martin honour his commitment to share federal gas taxes with Canada's cities?

January 15, 2004 - Macleans

Private industry is financing an 'Omaha By Design' effort to improve city's design standards and guidelines.

January 15, 2004 - Omaha World Herald

St. Louis' older suburbs are copying traditional city neighborhoods in an effort to attract residents.

January 14, 2004 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Neal Peirce utilizes the arrival of Wal-mart in Plymouth, NH to illustrate how independent retailers and 'main streets' survive in the face of big-box retailing.

January 13, 2004 - National League Of Cities

Ending years of wrangling, a development advisor is selected to figure out what to do with the abandoned island. [Includes images.]

January 12, 2004 - The Slatin Report