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Revitalizing Neighborhoods: Strategies for Urban Revitalization
An overview of the main levers of neighborhood revitalization, housing, streets, services, jobs and safety, and how they are usually sequenced over time.
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Neighborhood Revitalization
Renewing whole neighborhoods with residents, housing and local services.
Revitalizing Neighborhoods: Community-Driven Urban Development
How residents and local groups can start and steer neighborhood renewal themselves, and the kinds of support they usually need from a city government.
Revitalizing Neighborhoods: Strategies for Success
Which conditions tend to separate neighborhood renewals that hold up over time from those that stall, and how much is honestly known about each of them.
Revitalizing Neighborhoods: The Role of Community Engagement
Practical engagement methods for a neighborhood plan, including meetings, surveys and walking tours, and ways to reach residents who rarely attend.
Revitalizing Neighborhoods: Urban Renewal Strategies
A tool-by-tool tour of the instruments a neighborhood renewal can combine, including zoning, incentives, small grants and public works, with their trade-offs.
Revitalizing Public Housing: Urban Development Strategies for Affordable Housing
How public housing estates are renewed: repair versus rebuild, resident relocation and right to return, and the displacement risks that come with each path.
Revitalizing Urban Education: Strategies for Improving Educational Outcomes
How schools, libraries and learning programs fit into neighborhood renewal, with caution about claiming that place-based efforts cause better results.
The Art of Urban Revitalization: How to Create Vibrant and Thriving Neighborhoods
The everyday ingredients of a lively neighborhood, such as varied housing, local shops and safe streets, and how revitalization efforts try to build them.
Urban Development and the Revitalization of Educational Institutions
How schools, colleges and similar institutions act as stable neighborhood anchors in renewal, and the tensions that role can create with nearby residents.
Urban Development and the Revitalization of Educational Institutions: A Global Perspective
How campus edges and surrounding districts evolve, explained through clearly hypothetical, cross-country scenarios with no named places or results.
Urban Renewal and Education: How Cities Can Improve Educational Outcomes through Design
How building design, school siting, safe routes and neighborhood stability may relate to learning, and why the evidence on educational outcomes is mixed.
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