Community / Economic Development
San Jose: The Lost Opportunity Is Staggering
Forbes ASAP editor Michael S. Malone delivers a damning analysis of how San Jose, CA, has squandered a golden opportunity for redevelopment.
How Radio Can Organize A Community
Low-power FM licenses have signals that travel only 10-20 miles. But they are a powerful economic development and community organizing tool.
Saving The Inner City Will Save The City
Milwaukee business and civic leaders announce a new economic development initiative focused on the inner city.
A Company Town's Bid To Reinvent Itself
Layoffs at Kodak and Xerox in Rochester symbolize a challenge felt by other cities.
Culture The Key To Downtown Renaissance?
International successes of downtown cultural institutions have New Yorkers thinking artistically about ground zero's redevelopment.
The Amazing Rebound Of Winslow, Ariz.
Winslow was on the verge of death when local boosters restored the town's hotel, and started a chain reaction that revitalized the city.
An Unlikely Village Marked By Eco Prowess
The Shaw Ecovillage Project applies traditional ecovillage principles to an underserved urban neighborhood.
Old-Style Ballparks Create Vibrant Mixed-use Districts
Old-Style ballparks, fronting on urban streets, spur in-city living.
Manhattan's New Way Of Thinking
Two years after 9/11, it's lost jobs, lost bustle, gained humanity -- a city fazed, but moving on.
Joel Kotkin: The Rise Of Second Tier Cities
Readers participate in an online dicussion with publicy policy expert Joel Kotkin about his recent article on the rise of the "second-tier" cities.
A Revolution In The French Quarter
Critics say that recent efforts to clean up New Orlean's French Quarter threaten to turn it into a Disneyfied caricature.
New York City's Growth Strategy Is 'Doomed'
Study says New York City's economic development strategy is "obsolete."
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.
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
