Miscellaneous Readings

See below for a list of readings that don't fit neatly into the other three categories. They include general topics such as regional equity, economic development, and urban planning.

 

• From Vacancy to Vibrancy: A guide to redeveloping underground storage tank sites through area-wide planning

From Smart Growth America (March 2012)

 

• Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland

From American Assembly (various authors), (February 2012)

 

• The Capital Absorption Capacity of Places: A Research Agenda and Framework (working paper)

From the Initiative for Responsible Investment and Living Cities (2012)

 

• The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse

From Preservation Green Lab, National Trust for Historic Preservation (2011)

 

• For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places

By Peter Kageyama (2011), BOOK

 

• America's Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model

From PolicyLink (2011)

 

• Megapolitan America

By Arthur Nelson and Robert Lang (2011), BOOK

 

• Long-Term Stress and Systemic Failure: Taking Seriously the Fiscal Crisis of America's Older Cities 

By Alan Mallach and Eric Scorsone (September 2011)

 

• City and Suburban Crime Trends in Metropolitan America

By Elizabeth Kneebone and Steven Raphael (May 2011)

 

• Reinventing America's Legacy Cities: Strategies for Cities Losing Population

From the 110th American Assembly (April 2011)

 

• Prosperity 2050: Is Equity the Superior Growth Model?

By Sarah Treuhaft and David Madland (April 2011)

 

• Impact Investing: A Framework for Policy Design and Analysis

By Ben Thornley, David Wood, Katie Grace, Sarah Sullivant (January 2011)

 

• Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Health Food and Transform Communities

By Rebecca Flournoy for PolicyLink (2011)

 

• Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

By Edward Glaeser (2011), BOOK

 

• The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads

By Rita Axelroth and Steve Dubb, for the Democracy Collaborative

(December 2010)

 

• Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Balancing Muncipal and Nonprofit Interests

From the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (November 2010)

 

• Facing the Urban Challenge: The Federal Government and America's Older Distressed Cities
  By Alan Mallach (May 2010)

 

• The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why it Matters
  By Sarah Treuhaft and Allison Karpyn (2010)

 

• Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

By James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, and Eric Shragge (2010), BOOK

 

• Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy

By David Imbroscio (2010), BOOK

 

• Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By Roland V. Anglin (2010), BOOK 

 

• Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes

By John Forester (2010), BOOK 

 

• Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago

By Pierre Clavel (2010), BOOK

 

• Community: The Structure of Belonging
  By Peter Block (2010), BOOK

 

• Cities for People
  By Jan Gehl (2010), BOOK

 

• The Trouble with City Planning: What New Orleans Can Teach Us
  By Kristina Ford (2010), BOOK

 

• Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies
  By John Kromer (2009), BOOK 

 

• Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis
  Edited by M. Paloma Pavel (2009), BOOK

 

• This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America
  By Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner and Martha Matsuoka (2009), BOOK

 

• Grid/Street/Place: Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts
  By Nathan Cherry and Kurt Nagle (2009), BOOK

 

 

See miscellaneous readings published prior to 2009

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