Economic Development Policy and Politics

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Urban industrial land and land policy: national context, American Planning Association Annual Conference (2010)
 

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Community Benefits Agreements and Local Government: A Review of Recent Evidence, Journal of the American Planning Association (2010)

As community benefits agreements (CBAs) become more common in urban redevelopment, they are generating conceptual...

 

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Dispatches -- Is New Orleans a Shrinking City, Places (2007)
 

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Up-Zoning New York City’s Mixed Use Neighborhoods : Property-Led Economic Development and the Anatomy of a Planning Dilemma, Journal of Planning Education and Research (2005)
 

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Remaking New York City: Can Prosperity Be Shared and Sustainable? (with Brad Lander), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2004)

Changes in the organization of global economic activity – in particular, the ascendance of services...

 

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How the Far West Side Will be Won, The Architect's Newspaper (2004)
 

Local Labor Markets and Workforce Development

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Human capital-centered regionalism in economic development: The case of Philadelphia’s biosciences sector, Penn Institute for Urban Research White Paper Series on Sustainable Urban Development (2011)

The paper, drawing on a case study of a regional "talent development" consortium in the...

 

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Chains and Ladders: Exploring the Opportunities for Workforce Development and Poverty Reduction in the Hospital Sector (with Marla Nelson), Economic Development Quarterly (2010)

In this article, the authors investigate the potential of hospitals to offer low- and semiskilled...

 

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Reading rival union responses to the localization of technical work in the US telecommunications industry, Environment and Planning A (2007)
 

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Building in Good Jobs: Linking Workforce Development with Real Estate-Led Economic Development (with Jeremy Reiss and Margaret Stix), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2006)

Municipal governments in the U.S. are increasingly devoting public resources to the redevelopment of abandoned,...

 

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Beyond the First Job: career-ladder initiatives in telecommunications and related information technology industries, Communities and Workforce Development (2005)
 

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Building a Workforce Infrastructure, Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century: The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities (2004)
 

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Technology and Urban Labor Markets in the United States, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2001)
 

planning and community development history

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Expanding Planning’s Public Sphere: STREET Magazine, Activist Planning and Community Development in Brooklyn, NY 1971-75, Journal of Planning Education and Research (2008)

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a paradigm of activist planning or critical city...

 

Urban theory and pedagogy

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Keeping Counterpublics Alive in Planning, Searching for the Just City: Debates In Urban Theory and Practice (2009)