Community / Economic Development
Cities In The Digital Age
City scholar Joel Kotkin argues against the idea of an urban revitalization panacea a la Richard Florida.
Economic Development Challenges For An Agriculture-Based Region
California's Central Valley struggles with the need to accommodate its rapid growth while preserving its agricultural economic base.
Incentives For High-Tech In Arizona
Arizona attempts to spur its slowing tech industry with tax credits and private investments.
Coordinating Public Schools, Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization
Linking housing and public schools poses many opportunities for public-private partnerships and improving neighborhoods in the South Side of Chicago.
Remastering The Master Plan
The real estate waffle iron is burning holes in a longstanding and important pledge to reopen the long-lost Manhattan street grid at Ground Zero. Not smart.
Wal-Mart And The End Of America's Middle Class
Neal Peirce discusses the impact of Wal-Mart on the American society.
Revitalization Versus Gentrification, Part Three
A lack of community involvement has made residents of an Orlando neighborhood suspicious of new redevelopment plans.
Revitalization Versus Gentrification, Part Two
Many residents of Orlando's Parramore neighborhood are at risk of being left behind by current redevelopment efforts.
Sports Stadiums Not All They're Cracked Up To Be
Taxpayers in Miami-Dade county paying $20 million/year for underused-mothballed sports facilities
China's Coast Becomes A Factory Of The World
China's Pearl River Delta is growing by double digits and stocking Wal-Mart's shelves.
How Clean Is Clean Enough?
California is decades behind other states in formulating a comprehensive brownfields policy, stifling economic development efforts.
Revitalization Versus Gentrification, Part One
Parramore, a poor neighborhood west of Downtown Orlando, is the latest battleground over community redevelopment.
Mention Of Eminent Domain Disrupts Planning Process
An Albany, NY, neighborhood is split between its desire for revitalization and its distrust of the eminent domain process.
Getting To Smart Growth: 100 Policies For Implementation
This 120-page primer describes concrete 100 policies and techniques for putting the ten smart growth principles into practice.
Bigger Doesn't Always Mean Better -- or Successful
There is nothing wrong with big stores like Wal-Mart, but they can't sell a certain commodity.
Providence's Historic Business Incubator
A business incubator in an historic building combines economic development with historic preservation.
A Competitive Agenda For Renewing Pennsylvania
The way a state or region grows physically affects how it grows economically and fiscally.
Los Angeles Releases Report On Wal-Mart
A report on Wal-Mart commissioned by the City of Los Angeles warns that Wal-Mart's Supercenters would harm the local economy.
Economic Development, Parisian Style
A clever advertising campaign by a region in Southwest France offers a comprehensive package of assistance to residents who leave Paris.
Inner Cities: A Report Card
Neal Peirce reviews the performance of the nations inner 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.
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
