Smart Growth and Jobs

Smart Growth and Workforce Development by Greg LeRoy and Sara Hinkley (2000)
How suburban sprawl reduces opportunity for low-skill workers and contributes to the geographic concentration of poverty, and how smart growth policies could reverse those trends.

Labor Leaders as Smart Growth Advocates: How Unions See Suburban Sprawl and Work for Smart Growth Solutionsby Greg LeRoy (2003) -- This survey of union federation leaders – 39 central labor council leaders and 11 state labor federation leaders – reveals that all of them see serious problems in their regions being caused by suburban sprawl.

The Jobs Are Back in Town: Urban Smart Growth and Construction Employment: by Phil Mattera and Greg LeRoy (2003) -- This report, for the first time we believe, begins to provide evidence that the job-related arguments against smart growth are dead wrong.  Rather than diminishing the number of construction jobs, it turns out that smart growth is in many ways better than sprawl in creating employment for workers who build residential and commercial structures as well as transportation infrastructure.

Smart Growth and Sprawl

Another Way Sprawl Happens: Economic Development Subsidies in a Twin Cities Suburb by Greg LeRoy and Sara Hinkley (2000).  A case study of a fringe-suburban industrial park that used tax increment financing to lure 29 companies, relocating 1,600 jobs mostly away from the urban core. Includes impact analyses based on race, poverty, welfare and transit access.

Visioning and Empowerment in Small Watersheds -- A process to control urban sprawl through better decisions.    -- 379 kB PDF

Visioning and Empowerment - Slide Show --4282 kB Microsoft PowerPoint Document --Interreligious Sustainability Project

The Sprawl of the Wild: Now Is the Right Time To Revive Our Cities
by Bruce Katz, Mark Muro
(Op-Ed) The Patriot-News
12/7/2003

American Metropolis: Divided We Sprawl
by Bruce Katz
(Speech) Land Use Coalition at Yale
3/30/2004

Smart Growth and Urban Sustainability

Staying in the Game -- Exploring opportunities for urban sustainability 402 kB PDF

Using The Hidden Assets of America's Communities and Regions to Ensure Sustainable Communities -- Is the continued migration of city dwellers to the suburbs an indicator of the low value ascribed to America's cities? If so, that negative judgment is endorsed by score-keeping, ranging from the Census to the daily economic reports and news, all of...

Testimony to the Millenial Housing Commission -- Scott Bernstein, President and Founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, testified at the Chicago Hearing about how usprawl with its associated high costs of automobile transportation is cutting many families off from the American dream -- 52 kB Microsoft Word Document

CNT Annual Report '99-'00 --Capturing the Hidden Assets of Cities --1866 kB PDF

Smart Growth and Social Equity

Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices, The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and PolicyLink, April 2001
(210k ... download time approx. 5 sec. over 56k connection)

Communities Gaining Access to Capital:  Social Equity Criteria and Implementation Recommendations for the Community Capital Investment Initiative (CCII), PolicyLink, December 2000(161k ... download time approx. 4 sec. over 56k connection)

Thinkers and Resources for Promoting Equitable Development, PolicyLink, March 2000 
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Community-based Initiatives Promoting Regional Equity: Profiles of Innovative Programs from Across the Country, PolicyLink, February 2000 
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Community-based Regionalism: California Convening, Proceedings of June 22-23, 1999 Meeting in Oakland, CA, PolicyLink, January 2000 
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Perspectives on Regionalism: Opportunities for Community-based Organizations to Advance Equity, PolicyLink, January 2000
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Funders' Network Briefing Book:  Strategies and Examples of Community-based Approaches to Equity and Smart Growth - 
A Working Document, PolicyLink, January 2000 
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Opportunities for Smarter Growth: Social Equity and the Smart Growth Movement, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, and PolicyLink, December 1999 
(310k ... download time approx. 8 sec over 56k connection)

Sharing the Wealth:  Resident Ownership Mechanisms, PolicyLink, September 2001
(184 Pages - 788k ... download time approx. 15 sec. over 56k connection)

Sharing the Wealth: Resident Ownership Mechanisms, Summary Document, PolicyLink, September 2001   (18 Pages - 387k ... approx. 8 seconds over 56k connection)\

Smart Growth and Neighborhoods

Documenting Neighborhood Conditions in Washington, DC
by Martha Ross (Report) January 2004

Growth in the Heartland
by Amy Liu (Speech) Presentation to Greening the Heartland 2004
3/10/2004

Valuing America's First Suburbs: A Regional Policy Agenda
by Robert Puentes (Speech)

Presentation to the National League of Cities, First Tier Suburbs Council3/8/2004

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