Coping With Economic Meltdown
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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…written multiple articles for the Planning Commissioners Journal. Our thanks especially to: Joel Russell; Wendy Grey; Carolyn Braun; Gwendolyn Hallsmith; Otis White; Randall Arendt; Ilene Watson; and the late Jack McCall. You can find their…
How Wise Is Your Crowd?
Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. When planning commissioners think of a crowd, one image that comes to…
Getting Started on a Local Economic Plan
Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. If you’re like most communities across the country, development pressures have not…
Assets that Build Your Local Economy
Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. When unemployment is high, when young people coming out of college can’t…
Finding Your Economy’s Hidden Treasure
Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. For the last three issues, this column has explored the first steps…
Charting an Economic Course
Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. We’ve been examining all the ways that planning commissioners can lay the…
Interdependence
…healthy small business ecosystem. Editor’s Note: For a look at one way in which businesses can come together, see Beth Humstone’s article, “Turning Downtowns Around: Business Improvement Districts.” See also Gwendolyn Hallsmith’s “Getting Started on…
The Wise Economy Manifesto
…point about the need for each community to establish its own unique identity, see “What’s the Market Telling Us?” (the Economics of Uniqueness). For more on crowdsourcing, see the related Wikipedia entry, and Gwendolyn Hallsmith’s…
