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Investing in Healthy, Sustainable Places through Urban Agriculture - 1 views

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Funders play an essential role in repurposing vacant properties for productive reuse. The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities recently released a report that provides a comprehensive definition of urban agriculture and outlines several ways in which funders can support this innovative reuse strategy.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Funders play an essential role in repurposing vacant properties for productive reuse. The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities recently released a report that provides a comprehensive definition of urban agriculture and outlines several ways in which funders can support this innovative reuse strategy.</div>

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Re-Imagining Cleveland: Ideas to Action Resource Book - 4 views

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House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods - 2 views

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The book describes the history and role of local community organizations in revitalizing distressed neighborhoods in major cities around the United States.

Hoffman, Alexander von. House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Neighborhood Revitalization and the Postindustrial City: A Multinational Perspective - 3 views

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Gale, Dennis E. Neighborhood Revitalization and the Postindustrial City: A Multinational Perspective. Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1984.

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Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core - 2 views

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Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core examines attempts at controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies- treated as not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the chapter authors describe and evaluate real-world approaches to sustaining the metropolitan economy."

Wagner, Fritz W., Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey Jr., Krishna M. Akundi, and Alan F.J. Artibise, eds. Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core. Richard D. Bingham and Larry C. Ledebur,eds. Cities and Contemporary Society. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005.

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"Transforming Foreclosed Properties Into Community Assets."_Many Authors. [online] - 2 views

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Madar, Josiah, Been, Vicki, and Amy Armstrong. "Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets." NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, 2009. The report reviews the main issues discussed at a roundtable hosted by the Furman Center and supported by the Ford Foundation on May 2, 2008. It describes market issues for foreclosed properties, as well as opportunities for purchasing, reselling, and rehabilitating foreclosed properties. Additionally, the paper includes case studies that describe successful strategies that have been employed by various cities and local governments.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Madar, Josiah, Been, Vicki, and Amy Armstrong. "Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets." NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, 2009. The report reviews the main issues discussed at a roundtable hosted by the Furman Center and supported by the Ford Foundation on May 2, 2008. It describes market issues for foreclosed properties, as well as opportunities for purchasing, reselling, and rehabilitating foreclosed properties. Additionally, the paper includes case studies that describe successful strategies that have been employed by various cities and local governments.</div>

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Neighborhood Recovery: Investment Policy for the New Hometown - 2 views

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Book presents a policy approach that cities can use to improve the physical condition of their neighborhoods and help urban residents compete for good jobs in the metropolitan economy. Kromer's experience in Philadelphia reveals challenges and opportunities that can decisively influence the future of neighborhoods in many other American cities."

Kromer, John. Neighborhood Recovery: Investment Policy for the New Hometown. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

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Flexible Zoning: How it Works - 2 views

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This report by the Urban Land Institute focuses on the potential uses and advantages of flexible zoning over traditional zoning techniques. The research in the publication focuses on the successes and failures of flexible zoning by focusing on seven communities around the United States as case studies.

Porter, Douglas R., Patrick L. Phillips, and Terry J. Lassar. "Flexible Zoning: How It Works." 1- 200. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Land Institute, 1988.

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Public Land Banking and the Price of Land - 2 views

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This article reviews the ways in which the public land banking process can affect residential land prices.

Carr, Jack, and Lawrence B. Smith. "Public Land Banking and the Price of Land."

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Deconstructing Flint - 2 views

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The report is a summary of the "Deconstructing Flint" research project that was conducted by the author in 2006 and early 2007. It highlights Flint, Michigan in an effort to recommend methods of organized demolition and deconstruction for cities at large.

Janz, Wes. "Deconstructing Flint." 1-14: Submitted to Genesee Institute, Genesee County Land Bank, 2007.

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"Ohio's Cities at a Turning Point: Finding the Way Forward"_Mallach + Brachman [online] - 2 views

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Mallach, Alan and Lavea Brachman. "Ohio's Cities At a Turning Point: Finding the Way Forward." Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, 2010.

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"Selling Tax-Reverted Land: Lessons from Cleveland and Detroit."_Dewar. [journal article] - 3 views

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Dewar, Margaret. "Selling Tax-Reverted Land: Lessons from Cleveland and Detroit." Journal of the American Planning Association 72, no. 2 (2006): 167-80. "Property abandonment is widespread in many northeastern and Midwestern cities. Some cities succeed better than others at moving abandoned properties to new uses. Comparing Detroit and Cleveland, where indicators of demand for land look similar, reveals that Cleveland's land bank has been an effective approach to selling tax-reverted land for reuse, while Detroit's method of land disposition has been less successful. Cleveland integrates its approach into the mayor's agenda for housing development and supports redevelopment with many complementary efforts. Cleveland's land bank conveys land with clear title, has an accurate property inventory, "banks" property, and sells for predictable, low prices." (from article)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Dewar, Margaret. "Selling Tax-Reverted Land: Lessons from Cleveland and Detroit." Journal of the American Planning Association 72, no. 2 (2006): 167-80. "Property abandonment is widespread in many northeastern and Midwestern cities. Some cities succeed better than others at moving abandoned properties to new uses. Comparing Detroit and Cleveland, where indicators of demand for land look similar, reveals that Cleveland's land bank has been an effective approach to selling tax-reverted land for reuse, while Detroit's method of land disposition has been less successful. Cleveland integrates its approach into the mayor's agenda for housing development and supports redevelopment with many complementary efforts. Cleveland's land bank conveys land with clear title, has an accurate property inventory, "banks" property, and sells for predictable, low prices." (from article)</div>

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"Explaining the "Brain Drain" from Older Industrial Cities: The Pittsburgh Region."_Ban... - 0 views

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Hansen, Susan B., Carolyn Ban, and Leonard Huggins. "Explaining the "Brain Drain" from Older Industrial Cities: The Pittsburgh Region." Economic Development Quarterly 17, no. 2 (2003): 15. "In an effort to understand why so many college graduates are leaving western Pennsylvania, recent college graduates from three Pittsburgh-area universities were surveyed about their career and location decisions. The results indicated some increase in those staying between 1994 and 1999. A logistic regression analysis showed that an improving economy, low housing costs, an ample opportunities for continuing education were the major reasons. However, the region is still losing disproportionate numbers of minorities and graduates in high-tech fields and is attracting few immigrants. The major competition was from neighboring states rather than the Sun Belt. Low salaries and lack of advancement opportunities, especially for women, minorities, and two career couples, were the primary reasons. The results suggest several policy recommendations to help retain recent area graduates and to attract more highly skilled workers to the region." [from abstract]

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hansen, Susan B., Carolyn Ban, and Leonard Huggins. "Explaining the "Brain Drain" from Older Industrial Cities: The Pittsburgh Region." Economic Development Quarterly 17, no. 2 (2003): 15. "In an effort to understand why so many college graduates are leaving western Pennsylvania, recent college graduates from three Pittsburgh-area universities were surveyed about their career and location decisions. The results indicated some increase in those staying between 1994 and 1999. A logistic regression analysis showed that an improving economy, low housing costs, an ample opportunities for continuing education were the major reasons. However, the region is still losing disproportionate numbers of minorities and graduates in high-tech fields and is attracting few immigrants. The major competition was from neighboring states rather than the Sun Belt. Low salaries and lack of advancement opportunities, especially for women, minorities, and two career couples, were the primary reasons. The results suggest several policy recommendations to help retain recent area graduates and to attract more highly skilled workers to the region." [from abstract]</div>

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"Neighborhood Stabilization and Safety in East North Philadelphia, 1998 - 2010."_Kromer... - 1 views

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Kromer, John and Christopher Kingsley. "Vacant Property Reclamation through Strategic Investment." Philadelphia: Penn Fels Institute of Government, 2010. "Neighborhood Stabilization and Safety in East North Philadelphia, 1998-2010 provides evidence of improving social outcomes for a section of North Philadelphia that lies east of the Temple University main campus. During the past decade, one of Philadelphia's leading community development corporations, Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, the Association of Puerto Ricans on the March, or APM, has developed hundreds of well-designed sales and rental housing units and a new supermarket on formerly vacant parcels within the area. A greening program undertaken in coordination with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, PHS, has also brought well-tended grass and trees to once-neglected lots."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Kromer, John and Christopher Kingsley. "Vacant Property Reclamation through Strategic Investment." Philadelphia: Penn Fels Institute of Government, 2010. "Neighborhood Stabilization and Safety in East North Philadelphia, 1998-2010 provides evidence of improving social outcomes for a section of North Philadelphia that lies east of the Temple University main campus. During the past decade, one of Philadelphia's leading community development corporations, Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, the Association of Puerto Ricans on the March, or APM, has developed hundreds of well-designed sales and rental housing units and a new supermarket on formerly vacant parcels within the area. A greening program undertaken in coordination with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, PHS, has also brought well-tended grass and trees to once-neglected lots."</div>

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Small Cities in Transition: The Dynamics of Growth and Decline - 3 views

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Bryce, Herrington J., ed. Small Cities in Transition: The Dynamics of Growth and Decline. Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1977.

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Determining the Costs of Vacancies in Baltimore - 3 views

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This article focuses on the cost of police services that are associated with vacant properties, specifically in relation to Baltimore, MD.

Winthrop, Bob, and Rebecca Herr. "Determining the Cost of Vacancies in Baltimore." Government Finance Review 25, no. 3 (2009): 39-42.

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"Vacant Property Reclamation through Strategic Investment in Eastern North Philadelphia... - 1 views

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Kromer, John and Christopher Kingsley. "Vacant Property Reclamation through Strategic Investment in Eastern North Philadelphia, 1998-2010." Philadelphia: Penn Fels Institute of Government, 2010.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Kromer, John and Christopher Kingsley. "Vacant Property Reclamation through Strategic Investment in Eastern North Philadelphia, 1998-2010." Philadelphia: Penn Fels Institute of Government, 2010.</div>

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"Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods."_Keating, Krumholz, and Star, eds. [book] - 0 views

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Keating, W. Dennis, Norman Krumholz, and Philip Star (eds.). Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996 This "analysis of urban neighborhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents fifteen original and thought-provoking essays by many of the leading scholars of urban planning and development. Together they show how urban neighborhoods can and must be preserved as economic, cultural, and political centers. In this unique resource, the authors examine the growth and evolution of urban neighborhoods; illustrate what approaches have and haven't worked in a number of U.S. cities, including Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Boston, and Minneapolis; investigate the expansion and widespread successes of Community Development Corporations in neighborhoods around the country; provide a comprehensive analysis of federal policies; and discuss the prospects of urban neighborhoods from a realistic perspective."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Keating, W. Dennis, Norman Krumholz, and Philip Star (eds.). Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996 This "analysis of urban neighborhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents fifteen original and thought-provoking essays by many of the leading scholars of urban planning and development. Together they show how urban neighborhoods can and must be preserved as economic, cultural, and political centers. In this unique resource, the authors examine the growth and evolution of urban neighborhoods; illustrate what approaches have and haven't worked in a number of U.S. cities, including Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Boston, and Minneapolis; investigate the expansion and widespread successes of Community Development Corporations in neighborhoods around the country; provide a comprehensive analysis of federal policies; and discuss the prospects of urban neighborhoods from a realistic perspective."</div>

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"A GIS-based decision support system for brownfield redevelopment."_Thomas [article] - 2 views

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Thomas, Michael R. "A GIS-based decision support system for brownfield redevelopment." Landscape and Urban Planning 58, 1 (2002): 7-23. "To evaluate land use options with respect to brownfields inventory, characterization, and potential for redevelopment, both government and private decision makers need access to information regarding land capability; development incentives; public goals, interests, and preferences; and environmental concerns such as site contamination and environmental quality. This article discusses a decision support system that provides access to state, regional, and local geospatial databases, several informational and visualization tools, and assumptions useful in providing a better understanding of issues, options, and alternatives in redeveloping brownfields. The resultant decision support system is augmented by a unique geographic information systems-based land use modeling application as an integrated expert system." (from abstract)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thomas, Michael R. "A GIS-based decision support system for brownfield redevelopment." Landscape and Urban Planning 58, 1 (2002): 7-23. "To evaluate land use options with respect to brownfields inventory, characterization, and potential for redevelopment, both government and private decision makers need access to information regarding land capability; development incentives; public goals, interests, and preferences; and environmental concerns such as site contamination and environmental quality. This article discusses a decision support system that provides access to state, regional, and local geospatial databases, several informational and visualization tools, and assumptions useful in providing a better understanding of issues, options, and alternatives in redeveloping brownfields. The resultant decision support system is augmented by a unique geographic information systems-based land use modeling application as an integrated expert system." (from abstract)</div>

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Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond - 2 views

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"Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond" compiles projects by the International Center for Urban Ecology (iCUE). Essays on Detroit and several other troubled cities are combined with non-urban and anti-architectural perspectives and community collaboration processes to encourage discourse on the decomposition and possible revitalization of cities.

Park, Kyong. Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond. Map Book Publishers, 2005

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