Community / Economic Development
A New Urban Strategy: The Municipal Corporation
Lorain, Colorado is turning over a new leaf with a new business attitute and new construction projects.
Five-Point Plan To Reinvest In Cities
A five-point plan encourages city reinvestment and a nationwide poll finds residents support tax dollars being spent to revitalize central cities.
Questions About Urban Parks?
In an innovative Q&A, Urban Parks Online invites questions about the growth, management, and issues involved in developing urban parks.
Getting East St. Louis Wired
Community development project aims to bring computer tools for mapping and predicting impact of new businesses to neighborhood activists in East St. Louis poorest communities.
Urban Economic Zones Miss Mark
North Carolina has created several urban zones to target economic incentives. But questions are being raised about the intended versus actual impacts.
Outstanding Government Projects
An award program administered by the Ford Foundation and Harvard University recognizes innovation in government programs. Several urban planning efforts are recognized.
Wealth Altering L.A.'s Beachfront Bohemia
Known for its muscle men and rollerbladers in bikinis, Venice may be Southern California's most distinctive neighborhood but new wealth and rising real estate prices is threatening L.A. beachfront Bohemia.
Bean Town Is Jumping
Boston’s outlying neighborhoods are on the move.
Chicago Is A Livable City, But Is That Enough?
It's a great, livable city, but it's fading as a business capital. What can be done?
Living Next Door To Disneyland
What does it mean to live next door to the Disneyland?
Commuters Long for Jobs Near Home
As number of commuters crossing the Altamont Pass continues to grow, study reveals that 90 percent would prefer to work closer to homes in the Central Valley.
How To Create Tourism In Your Town
Regional branding of regions is an effective way for communities to effectively generate tourism.
Fifty Years Later, Greenhills is Still Green
A lasting legacy of the New Deal, Greenhills was created in the 1930s as an experiment in community planning and design.
Growth Often Comes With Hidden Costs
While the first signs of sprawl are usually physical, painful economic consequence usually follow.
Urbanfetch Surrenders
Delivery Dot-com to shed jobs and become courier.
To Continue to Prosper, We Must Redefine Growth
In this Los Angeles Times op-ed, author Richard Handley highlights a movement which seeks to revolutionize the business cycle of "boom and bust" to one that is more self-sustaining.
Crooked Crossroad
Tourists at the famous San Francisco landmark drive residents to call for a stop to the tourist madness.
Atlanta's A Hub for the Net Too
Metro has added telecoms to rail and air hub functions.
Economic Development Success Story
The small town of Hastings, Minnesota, has found an economic development savior in a 50-year old "enterprise facilitiator."
Dot-Com Boom Makes S.F. a War Zone
As high-tech firms invade into San Francisco's Mission District and drive out longtime residents and hike up the rents, protestors demonstrate against the dot-com "colonization" with street theater and vandalism.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Heyer Gruel & Associates PA
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
