Community / Economic Development
Reverse Brain Drain: U.S. Cities Losing Creative Class
Not only are U.S. cities no longer attracting the world's mobile intellectual talent, they are losing their creative class to foreign cities.
Saving Main Street
Saving Main Street takes patience, but it's worth it say Neal Peirce.
Revitalizing Toronto's Little India
Neighbourhood BIA Survives Suburban Flight and SARS Panic
Economic Lessons For American Cities
Pennsylvania and California -- one old economy, one new economy. But both are seriously threatened by the dramatic changes taking place in the American economy.
National Survey Of Feelings
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.
Women In Construction
How one innovative economic development program is challenging stereotypes, and providing job training and housing rehab along the way.
Can The 'Creative Class' Drive An Urban Renewal?
Is innovation the only important factor in a successful urban strategy?
Kick-starting Edmonton's Downtown
Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.
Anti-Sprawl Strategies Good For Construction Jobs
Study finds that smart growth policies are good for construction jobs.
Making Canada's Cities Work
Will prime minister Paul Martin honour his commitment to share federal gas taxes with Canada's cities?
Omaha By Design
Private industry is financing an 'Omaha By Design' effort to improve city's design standards and guidelines.
St. Louis' Old Suburban Urbanism
St. Louis' older suburbs are copying traditional city neighborhoods in an effort to attract residents.
Main Street Is Alive And Well
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.
New York's Governor's Island Lives
Ending years of wrangling, a development advisor is selected to figure out what to do with the abandoned island. [Includes images.]
The Wal-Martization Of Banks?
Canadian banks are closing branch offices and centralizing operations in new 'Super Banks'.
The Secret Of Healthy Communities
A scientist's research challenges the "broken windows" theory.
Grand Plan, Small Step
Five teams make a short list for Los Angeles' high-profile and ambitious Grand Avenue makeover.
Montreal's Gentrification Battle Heats Up
The planting of bogus bombs at construction sites brings attention to new developments in 'forgotten' neighbourhoods.
More Compact Lifestyle Centers Have Cost Advantage Over Malls
Lifestyle center require less land, and typically have higher sales that comparable malls.
The Myth Of Gentrification
Urban revival is about recreating our nostalgia for the 1950's, but gentrified neighborhoods resemble a suburban subdivision more than an old city block, writes Michael Johns in The New York Times.
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
