How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Even poor cities own large swathes of poorly utilized real estate, or they control underperforming utilities and other commercial assets. Most cities could more than double their investments with smarter use of these commercial assets. Managing the city's assets smartly through the authors' proposed Urban Wealth Funds will enable cities to ramp up ......
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do Abou
Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite. Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson ......
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do Abou
Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite. Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson ......
Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely location for conflict and strife, yet this ......
Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely location for conflict and strife, yet this ......
How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders u mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists u are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are ......
The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District
Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century New York City not to be destroyed by urban development. This book tells the story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan.
