Community / Economic Development
WTC: What Footprint At What Price?
As the second anniversary of 9/11 attacks approaches, civility in the debate about the WTC footprint and an appropriate memorial is disappearing.
Downtown Rebounds With New Life
Eight years in the making, Lower Manhattan's commercial canyon has transformed into something better than planners had envisioned.
Business Risk-Taking In Low Income Areas 101
Seek out municipal resources; hire locally; work with community leaders to avoid opposition--and other tips featured in a 'how to' guide for risk-taking business entreprenuers in Chicago.
Designing Transportation For People, Not Cars
Bogotá has become a success story that cities around the world are aiming to copy.
Financial Costs And Social Costs
What Myron Orfield, Ed Blakely, Robert Fishman and others are saying about public schools and suburbs.
Wal-Mart Nation
What does it mean to live in a country where Wal-mart -- the world's 19th largest economy -- is the nation's largest employer?
Restoring A Sense Of Community Through Public Schools
A new community school is a symbol of ongoing renewal, in what was once one of the most violent neighborhoods in Boston.
Not All 'Big Boxes' Are Bad
Opening of a "Big Box" Home Depot store actually helps small home improvement businesses in one Hartford neighborhood.
Economic Development: Urban Farming
One group in Chicago is demonstrating that urban farming can be a viable economic development strategy in low income areas.
Baltimore's West Side Revitalization
Ceterpoint is an $80 million transformation of an entire block into shops, restaurants and rental residences.
Americans Still Dreaming About California
Despite recent troubles leading up to a historic gubernatorial recall, a new poll shows most Americans would like to live in California.
Community Development In Rural America
While the nation's cities try to develop successful strategies for growth, rural America is finding hundreds of inventive ways to add to its appeal.
Disneyland Meets The Killing Fields
Cambodia's Ministry of Tourism is preparing grandiose plans for a million-dollar theme park on a former notorious Khmer Rouge.
Community Action Gets Results
Through action and self advocacy, an impoverished community secures funding for new homes and economic development.
Wal-Mart Seeks To Polish Tarnished Image
Concerned about its public image, Wal-Mart has hired consultants to conduct "reputation research." Suggested remedies include radio and television ads.
Resilience Planning
This evolving form of disaster planning focuses on the ability of a community to recover following a disaster.
How Cities Respond To Losing Population
This story highlights the other end of spectrum from the booomtown scenario for cities.
Does New York Need A New Robert Moses?
Can New York City could learn from Robert Moses' methods, or are the broker's worst tactics may already be at work?
Volunteers Help Rehab Declining School Facilities
Public school facilities in Chicago are getting a 'face-lift' with the help of volunteers from private firms.
Atlanta Grows Along With Suburbs
Residents moving into urban Atlanta kept pace with the city's suburban growth, ending a decades-long trend of middle-class flight.
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
