Community / Economic Development

Is innovation the only important factor in a successful urban strategy?

January 16, 2004 - Joel Kotkin

Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.

January 15, 2004 - Edmonton Journal

Study finds that smart growth policies are good for construction jobs.

January 15, 2004 - Good Jobs First

Will prime minister Paul Martin honour his commitment to share federal gas taxes with Canada's cities?

January 15, 2004 - Macleans

Private industry is financing an 'Omaha By Design' effort to improve city's design standards and guidelines.

January 15, 2004 - Omaha World Herald

St. Louis' older suburbs are copying traditional city neighborhoods in an effort to attract residents.

January 14, 2004 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Neal Peirce utilizes the arrival of Wal-mart in Plymouth, NH to illustrate how independent retailers and 'main streets' survive in the face of big-box retailing.

January 13, 2004 - National League Of Cities

Ending years of wrangling, a development advisor is selected to figure out what to do with the abandoned island. [Includes images.]

January 12, 2004 - The Slatin Report

Canadian banks are closing branch offices and centralizing operations in new 'Super Banks'.

January 11, 2004 - New Winnipeg Magazine

A scientist's research challenges the "broken windows" theory.

January 10, 2004 - The New York Times

Five teams make a short list for Los Angeles' high-profile and ambitious Grand Avenue makeover.

January 9, 2004 - The Slatin Report

The planting of bogus bombs at construction sites brings attention to new developments in 'forgotten' neighbourhoods.

January 8, 2004 - The Montreal Gazette

Lifestyle center require less land, and typically have higher sales that comparable malls.

January 5, 2004 - The Detroit News

Urban revival is about recreating our nostalgia for the 1950's, but gentrified neighborhoods resemble a suburban subdivision more than an old city block, writes Michael Johns in The New York Times.

January 5, 2004 - The New York Times

The city's downtown and its art community are blossoming, but is luxury coming before the basics?

January 4, 2004 - The Orlando Sentinel

Planners must address the challenges of a multicultural society but also recognize multiculturalism is a revitalization tool.

January 3, 2004 - American Planning Association

Cities and counties of all sizes are adopting regulations to limit development of big box stores.

January 3, 2004 - California Planning and Development Report

An in-migration of gays And others has brought new life to an old city just across the state line from Washington, D.C.

January 3, 2004 - The Washington Post

Despite efforts to reinvent itself, the 'Steel City' is facing an identity and economic crisis.

January 2, 2004 - The New York Times

The City Hall building in a small city in Central California, that was damaged by a recent earthquake, has its origins in one developer's utopian vision.

December 31, 2003 - The Los Angeles Times