Community / Economic Development
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.
State Economic Development Programs Ranked
Good Jobs First released an analysis of 122 audits of state economic development programs performed over the last decade.
Kansas City, North, is Growing
Kansas City, north is growing; "city leaders,planners and residents say this may be the last chance for the city to get it right with smart growth."
New Group With Vision, Fire Needed
In this San Diego Union-Tribune column, Richard Louv writesabout the need for a regional "civic entity" to provide leadership forSan Diego as it faces the prospect of accommodating 1 million newresidents.
L.A. County Tech Center Wins HUD Award
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo presents a HUD Best Practices Award to the Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County’s Community Development Commission.
Churches Provide Housing For The Poor
Affordable housing has become the mission of many religious groups in Southern California. Federal aid is available to faith-based groups.
Vice-Presidential Hopeful Visits Digital Coast
Joe Lieberman, Democratic Vice-Presidential hopeful, visited Los Angeles' Digital Coast, calling it "the wired West".
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
