Community / Economic Development
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".
Revitalizing East St. Louis
An urban planning professor discusses his ten-year experience revitalizing East St. Louis.
Midopolis: Which Cities Have Ethnic Melting Pots?
The midopolis is the space between the urban core and the expanding communities on the metropolitan boundary.
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.
Economic & Planning Systems, Inc.
UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
City of Piedmont, CA
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
