Sustainability

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Reinventing Your Community From the Inside Out – Part I

by Jim Segedy, FAICP, and Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICP

Too often cities have scrambled to attract new businesses … from anywhere. But a different approach has started to take hold: growing from the inside out. This involves planting local economic seeds and nurturing them to be the new garden of opportunity.

Editor's Notes & Interviews

SLW-ability Yields Stronger Local Economies

During the AMPO (Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations) conference the past two days, the three words I think I heard most often were Sustainability; Livability; and Walkability. What’s more all three of these were often tied in to another phrase: economic competitiveness.

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Food Planning for Your Local Economy

by Diana Limbach Lempel and Christina DiLisio

A look at several projects in the Boston area highlighting the link between planning and food.

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Charting an Economic Course

by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

If your local economy were a ship and you were preparing for a voyage, what would you need?

Insights

What’s “Sustainable”?

by Dave Stauffer

Sustainability may be hard to define, but it’s increasingly being discussed by developers and local planning commissions. Observations from PCJ columnist Dave Stauffer.

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Assets that Build Your Local Economy

by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Taking a close look at your local economic assets is the first step in putting together an economic development plan.

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Getting Started on a Local Economic Plan

by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

What role can a planning commission play in jump-starting the local economy?

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Coping With Economic Meltdown

by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

How strong is your local economy? Is there a role for planning commissioners in addressing local economic development? The first of a series of short articles by Gwendolyn Hallsmith.

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The Role for Planning in Sustainable Communities

by Elaine Cogan

Communities throughout the country are see growing interest in sustainable development. Some ideas on how to take sustainability into account.

Editor's Notes & Interviews

Not Giving Up On Flint — Part II

While Flint, Michigan, has received lots of negative attention in the media — in some ways becoming the poster boy of urban disintegration — what’s also clear is that there are many who are not giving up on Flint.

Editor's Notes & Interviews

When Rouge Turned Green

Instead of closing down its River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Ford Motor Company has reinvested it — with an emphasis on energy-saving technologies, including an enormous green roof.

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Audacious … or Realistic?

I met with planners trying to deal with the large amounts of vacant land in Cleveland’s inner-city neighborhoods. Their approach to turn things around: implementing creative, green-oriented strategies.

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