Community / Economic Development
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.
Urban Sprawl Advances On American Military
The American military finds itself surrounded at home by urban sprawl.
Reversing Baltimore's Brain Drain
A 27-year-old wants to curb Baltimore's brain drain and reinforce community.
Population Growth Doesn't Ensure A City's Properity
"Even in an Internet age, place matters" says Neal Peirce.
Baltimore's Biotech Bid
A low-income neighborhood near Baltimore's John Hopkins University will be demolished in a move to create an office park to lure biotechnology firms.
Powerful Wal-mart
Neal Peirce discusses the impact of Wal-mart's business practices.
Fighting Homelessness: Santa Barbara's Plan
One theory suggests that the nicer a city is to the homeless, the more they attract -- and Santa Barbara has a downright unwelcoming reputation.
Historic Hotel For Sale: What Is The Best Use?
Built in 1925, the Winthrop Hotel was the place to stay when visiting Tacoma - then hard times fell in 1972 and the building was converted over to low-income (Section 8) housing.
CASA Latina: A Home For Seattle's Day Laborers
A non-profit organization, CASA (Centro de Ayuda Solidaria a los Amigos) Latina was developed around the daily gathering of Hispanic day laborers on Seattle's Western Ave. CASA aims to organize, galvanize, and protect the rights of Latino
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.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
