Community / Economic Development
Transforming Turin
Transportation emerges as a key issue as Turin, Italy, transform itself for the Winter Olympics.
Cash In The Inner City
A recent study reveals the market potential of middle-income households in the nation's inner cities.
Calgary's Conundrum
Will the East Village's innovative make-over hurt the city's poor?
America's 50 Hottest Cities
Expansion Management Magazine will publish its list of the nation's 50 'hottest cities' in its January, 2005 issue.
What Is The OC?
A review of literature -– some scathing -– on the complexities of Orange County, California.
How To Help?
Architects and planners are eager to help tsunami victims rebuild. But Western solutions are not always the best.
Designing Denver
City bigwigs review the most successful planning efforts in Denver history.
Wal-Mart Targets Poor Communities
While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.
A Secret Community With Secret Crimes
Philadelphia's Mexican immigrant population isn't reporting rampant crime.
Austin: The Year In Review
2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.
How Big Businessmen Saved The City
A review of the founding and development of the 50-year-old Greater Baltimore Committee.
Second Act For A Historic D.C. Neighborhood
Rennovated theater is the first of many new developments in Columbia Heights.
The Link Between Teen Births and Poverty
A 40-percent decline in teen births since 1991 has reduced problems of poverty in Baltimore.
Washington D.C. Area Economic Forecast
Even as it slows down from rapid growth in 2004, the economy of the Washington D.C. area will expand faster than the rest of the nation.
'Mom And Pop' Motels Will Disappear
Small motels along the "Space Coast" are disappearing.
Five City Design Resolutions For A Better Place
Jeff Speck offers advice for city mayors and citizens who want to build better places.
Arts Key To City's Revitalization
Plans for downtown Riverside hope to create a "cultural hot spot" that will draw from Inland Southern California's growing population.
Philadelphia's Blight Fight Working
Philadelphia Mayor Street's multimillion-dollar effort to reduce blight in city neighborhoods appears to be working.
New Utah Rail Stations Offer Hope For Economic Development
New rail stations to open in 2007 will offer residents of towns north of Salt Lake City new economic options.
Are Megacities Good?
We have entered the first 'urban century', and emerging megacities emphasize the divides between the wealthy and impoverished like never before.
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.
Ada County Highway District
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
