Urban Planning 538: Economic
Development Planning
(Fall Semester 2005)
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U.S. Manufacturing: Decline,
Retention, Revitalization Programs
"SAVING AND CREATING
GOOD JOBS: A Study of Industrial Retention and Expansion Programs,"
(Neil S. Mayer, Center for Community Change, June, 1998)
Industrial Heartland Labor
Investment Forum: "Our Money, Our Jobs: Worker Savings Funds and
Long-Term Investing in Manufacturing (conference proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA,
June 14-15, 1996)
U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturing
& Mining
Northeast-Midwest Institute (on manufacturing)
© 1999 Scott Campbell
Public Financing for Private
Enterprise: Debates and Cases
GFOA Fact Sheet:
Sports Facilities Bonds
GFOA POLICY STATEMENTS:
Tax-Exempt Financing and the Municipal Bond Market Policies
Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
Chicago's
program [broken link] | TIF
map in Chicago
The Future of TIF in Illinois
[broken link]
Illinois Tax Increment Association
Civic Federation (Chicago):
Tax Increment Financing
Neighborhood Capital Budget Group (Chicago): TIFs
"Why TIFs are Bad"
Pilsen Tax
Increment Financing (TIF) Analysis (UICUED - Chicago)
TIFs and the Ann
Arbor DDA
TIFs
and the Michigan Brownfield Redevelopment Act (BRA)
TIFs
and Ann Arbor's Lowertown Proposed development
Business Improvement Districts
(BID)
Times Square BID (New York)
Alliance for Downtown New York
Lower East Side Business Improvement
District, NYC
Center City District (Philadelphia)
Central Atlanta Progress
Downtown DC BID (Washington DC)
Detroit Downtown Inc.
Downtown Cleveland
Partnership
Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRB) /
Industrial Development Bond
Tax Abatement Programs
Poverty, Income Distribution
U.S. Census Bureau:
Income (including income
inequality)
U.S. Census Bureau:
Poverty (including
"Poverty 2002", 2001
poverty graphs and graph of Income
by Race/Hispanic Origin, 1967-94)
National Center for Education Statistics, Concentration
of Poverty by School District Urbanicity
Windows in Urban Poverty,
University of Texas at Dallas
The Economic Impact of the
Olympic Games
Olympic
Co-ordination Authority (Sydney 2000)
"1996
Olympics: A defining moment in Atlanta's history: Was it worth
it?" Elizabeth Vaeth (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
"Two
years later, little consensus on Olympics," Evelina Shmukler (Atlanta
Business Chronicle)
The Economic Impact
of the Sydney Olympic Games: A Collaborative Study by NSW Treasury and
The Centre for Regional Economic Analysis, University of Tasmania. Final
Report. Issued November 1997
THE ECONOMIC
IMPACT OF HOSTING THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS, Jeffrey M. Humphreys and Michael
K. Plummer
Firm Siting / Location Decisions
Area Development
(a facilities siting magazine)
www.locationusa.com
Miscellaneous
Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities: "The Widening Income Gulf" (1999)
Steel Industry; US Steel;
Homestead and the "Steel Valley", PA
The
1892 Homestead Strike (including historic photographs)
Carnegie Library of Homestead
PBS web page on Andrew
Carnegie
Rivers of Steel National and State Heritage
Area and their Steel
Heritage bibliography
Steel Valley Chamber of Commerce
"Homestead:
The Households of a Mill Town," Volume 4 of The Pittsburgh Survey, 1910.
"Glimmers of Hope in Braddock,
PA" (Article about Mon Valley steel town revival in New Steel, 9/96)
"Grant
offers Mon Valley revitalized future," (Post-Gazette, March 13, 1999)
The Role of Middle Market
Companies in Job Growth: Targeting Investment and Technology to
the "Critical Middle", The Steel Valley Authority Experience (by Joseph
Bute, Jr., Steel Valley Authority)
current
real estate listings in ZIP CODE 15120 (Homestead, PA)
The Allegheny County Department
of Economic Development
U.S. Census Bureau, Annual
Survey of Manufactures: SIC 33 (Primary Metals, including steel)
[useful interactive data tool for all sectors]
United Steelworkers of America
USX Corporation homepage (includes US Steel Group)
US Steel - Mon Valley
Works
Links Organized by Source
see "Data Sources" under
the group project assignment page
City Government
City of Ann Arbor:
Downtown Development
Authority, Community
Development, Planning
Department
City of Detroit Planning
and Development Department
State Government
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
US Government
US Dept. of Agriculture, Office
of Community Development
EDA: Econ.Data.Net
and a great list of
data links and "What
is Economic Development?"
HUD: Economic
Development Publications
HUD:
"The State of the Cities, 1999"
HUD:
"Now Is The Time: Places Left Behind In The New Economy"
Federal
Research Bank: Economic Development Incentive Gallery
US Census Bureau, including:
Non-Governmental Organizations
Annie E. Casey Foundation
American Economic Development Council
Michigan Municipal
League: Economic Development Tools
Cyburbia
- Planning Resource Directory -- Economic
development Resources (very useful)
Council for Urban Economic Development:
Research Tools
Change Communications: Internet
Solutions for Housing and Community Development Organizations: links
Great Lakes Information
Network: Economy of the Great Lakes Region
Northeast-Midwest Institute
AFL-CIO
U.S. Conference of Mayors:
Metro Economies report (2000)
governing.com: land
use / development links
University of Virginia Library
- Regional Economic Information System (REIS)
International Organizations
Sustainable
Cities Programme (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS-Habitat)
/ United Nations Environment Programmme (UNEP))
United Nations Development Programme
World Bank
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
NAFTA Secretariat
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation
and Development (OECD)
Inter-American Development Bank
European Union
