The Phoenix light rail system started spurring investment long before its maiden voyage December 28, 2008. Phoenix Metro estimates that since 2004 $7.4 billion...
This Downtown Master Plan for the City of Asheville, North Carolina won a 2010 Marvin Collins Outstanding Planning Award from the North Carolina Chapter ...
The City of Scottsdale provides a comprehensive and detailed checklist of green building practices for residential buildings under three...
The author writes about how property taxes revenues, which normally hold up during recessions, will plummet during this housing downturn....
The report by the National League of Cities reviews provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) that are relevant for cities.
<p>The City of Santa Monica, California Human Services Division (HSD) announced an 8% reduction in the city’s homeless population, based on its recent count of the city’s homeless. Using a new, rigorous methodology that involves physically counting homeless individuals in every census tract of the city, HSD is demonstrating the early success of Santa Monica’s Action Plan to Address Homelessness, and paving the way for accurate evaluation of progress in the future. The Count tallied 915 homeless individuals living within the City’s borders.<br>