Restructuring in the works for some CDCs
What do you do when your CDC can’t afford to buy pencils or print business cards, and certainly can’t buy land or buildings? You consider a major change in the […]
Planning vs. Development: Can We Really Choose One?
In theory, the current financial crisis is a good thing for neighborhood planning. With developers slowing down their projects because they can’t get financing, there may be an opening for […]
What Does the Financial Crisis Mean for CDCs?
Being a person who doesn’t have much invested in the stock market, I tend not to pay too close attention to photos on the business pages of weary stockbrokers on […]
NIMBYism in the Big City
I am accustomed to think of NIMBY (“Not in my back yard”) as referring to suburban homeowners who want to keep out affordable housing, bars and cafes, public transit and […]
What Responsibilities Do Institutions Have In Their Communities?
Universities need to take an active interest in maintaining and enhancing community stability.
Gentrification Keeps Trying to Improve its Image
Over time the conversation about gentrification has gotten much more complex.
Bluegrass, Rodeos, and Other Signs of a Living Community
This weekend the small community where I live had its annual heritage fair. This is when people get together to celebrate the traditional arts that have helped the community sustain […]
Home Again
With the help of its local community development corporation, a Boston neighborhood comes to terms with its transformation as a beloved church, long a treasured part of the community is reborn as housing.
Obama Talks Up Metropolitanism
Metropolitanism, or regionalism, was back in the news this morning as Barack Obama trumpeted the concept at the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. There’s nothing especially sexy […]
Make Your Streets Livable!
An exciting new resource is available to community developers who want to make the streets in their neighborhoods more inviting to people on foot, on bikes or traveling by some […]
Defining the Creative Economy People
I was pleased to hear at a recent planning workshop that the definition of the creative economy has been expanded. As popularized by Richard Florida in his first book on […]
Transit-Oriented, But Affordable?
Planning and community development blogs are aglow with talk of transit-oriented development (TOD), which is just that: development clustered around bus and train stations. It’s the favorite buzzword of smart […]