This article was originally published in 2005 in the Land Lines periodicle. It reported on the roundtable on community land trusts that was atteneded by researchers, policy analysts, technical assistance providers, funders, and community land trust staff members.
The Center for Community Progress’s mission is
In the summer of 2017, Greater Ohio Policy Center ran a blog series on shrinking cities – or communities that have experienced significant population decline. The blog series summarizes academic books and articles that explore how U.S. cities can manage the many consequences of population decline.
“Planning in America’s Legacy Cities: Toward Better, Smaller Communities after Decline,” by Margaret Dewar and Hunter Morrison, explores the unique challenges facing planners in cities with declining populations. This paper appears as a chapter in the volume Rebuilding America’s Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland, which was edited Alan Mallach and published by the American Assembly.
States can provide more than direct financial resources to struggling cities – they can encourage cities to be better fiscal planners, boost municipalities’ operational capacity, and create the conditions for new economic development. Particularly given ever diverging economic trends between high-growth and economically-challenged cities, state assistance may be more important than ever.
This working paper, written by Alan Mallach and released by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, explores that interdependence while making recommendations for how states can support urban revitalization that is both sustainable and inclusive.
This report measures and catalogs the successes of the Main Street Approach™ in communities throughout Michigan. The Main Street Approach™ is an economic development strategy that focuses on historic preservation and building upon a community’s authentic sense of place.
As cities continue to sprawl, connecting workers to jobs remains a critical issue that has lacked a substantive conversation. The Fund for Our Economic Future’s “Geography of Jobs” report raises this important issue and measures its impact in Northeast Ohio.
Placemaking is increasingly being seen as an economic development tool as well as a community development tool. The Michigan Municipal League identified the various economic impacts of placemaking in a recent report:
Stakeholders working together through a collective impact framework agree upon a common agenda, establish shared metrics, undertake mutually-reinforcing activities, and continuously communicate. An important feature of collective impact is the presence of a “backbone” team or organization, which serves as the coordinator of the shared project.