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Cluster of Trouble - Construction rolls on in foreclosure zones
Bunching of starter homes fuels concern over growth policies
STELLA M. HOPKINS AND TED MELLNIK
shopkins@charlotteobserver.com
Builders
continue hammering
together new houses in Charlotte's high-
foreclosure areas. This
year, they received permits for almost 1,100
starter homes in or near these neighborhoods.
Nearly 700
of those permits are for houses in a suburban swath north
and east of uptown. That's where three-fourths of the city's starter
homes
have been built during the past decade, and that's where foreclosures
have hurt the most. The
clustering of starter homes raises questions
as the city faces costly foreclosure problems of rising crime, falling
property values and families wrenched by economic disaster.
Should city officials have discouraged the clustering? Should
they allow it to continue?
"You'd think that building more of the same
in an area experiencing a lot of problems is probably not wise,"
said Roberto Quercia, a UNC
Chapel Hill professor of city and
regional planning.
...Clustering starter homes is "not only a bad idea from the perspective
you are seeing now but in general," said Quercia, the UNC
Chapel Hill planning professor. Combining a range of prices, sometimes
called mixed-income development, can create a stronger
community. "If
you let the market do what it does, then low-income housing will tend
to be built where land is cheap," he said.
"The city could have required or encouraged developers in higher
income subdivisions to include lower income."
But
Quercia and others acknowledge that can be a tough sell to consumers
worried that a lower-priced house nearby could hurt
their property value. Property owners also might balk at the government
dictating the price of housing they must build.
To read the complete article, visit: http://www.charlotte.com/112/story/407580.html
A Way Out of the Credit Crunch?
Sound of Ideas
90.3
FM WCPN
First
was the sub-prime foreclosure crisis and that has now become a global
credit crunch. What that means for families is this: more debt
and an increasingly
tough time getting credit. The Cleveland Fed has brought together
some top
economic policy advocates to help map out just where the economy is
headed
and how leaders can head off any disasters looming on the horizon.
The interview was broadcast on WCPN's Sound of Ideas program. Sound
of Ideas, broadcast every weekday,
highlights timely issues of significance in Northeast Ohio and puts
the listener in touch with regional newsmakers,
community leaders, health experts, educators, representatives from business
and others stakeholders in region.
Guest experts interviewed:
Ruth Clevenger, vice president, community affairs,
Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank.
Robert Quercia,
director, Center for Community Capital
Paul Poston, NeighborWorks
To listen to the broadcast, visit: http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/soi/12276/
North Carolina Global Learning Lab
The North Carolina Global Learning Lab is a repository of ongoing work
by students at DCRP. The select
projects featured on this site represent collaborative work carried
out by Meenu Tewari and
department’s
students in the Economic Development Specialization. The class
projects are designed to critically
engage students in North Carolina’s rapidly transforming and globalizing
economy. The website also
includes individual research reports and Master’s projects on
related themes.
Read more at ncglobal.unc.edu
UNC Study Finds Working Families have a variety of options to
manage financial distress
Chapel
Hill, N.C. — North Carolinians have not missed payday lending
since the stores have closed, according to a study by UNC's Center
for Community Capital (CCC).
CCC,
directed by Roberto Quercia,
looked at how low- and moderate-
income households have managed financial hardships since payday
lending ended in the state, and their attitudes toward the available
options to manage those hardships.
Their study, commissioned by the N.C. Office of the Commissioner of
Banks (NCCOB), found that three-
quarters of low- and middle-income people were unaffected by the ban
on payday lending. "We were happy
to see that low-income families in financial distress were able to meet
their needs," said Dr. Quercia.
The study
titled, "North Carolina Consumers After Payday Lending: Attitudes
and Experiences with Credit
Options" (read
the full report) found that most households used three or more
options to get through a
financial emergency, including paying bills late, using savings, borrowing
from family and friends, and
getting advances on a credit card. In addition, the survey found
that almost nine out of 10 low- and
middle-income respondents had an overwhelmingly negative perception
of payday lending practices.
CCC surveyed 400 low- and middle-income North Carolinian households
to see how they managed financial
shortfalls. Focus groups of former payday borrowers were held
to gain an understanding of their experiences
and the impact these lending practices had on their ability to manage
financial shortfalls. CCC researchers
concluded that the absence of payday lending had had no significant
negative impact on credit availability
for North Carolina consumers.
The UNC Center
for Community Capital is the leading center for research and policy
analysis on the
transformative power of capital on households and communities in the
United States. The Center's in-depth
analyses help policymakers, advocates and the private sector find sustainable
ways to expand economic
opportunity to more people, more effectively
Developer
Is China’s Latest Hot Stock Offering
New
York Times
By DAVID BARBOZA
“The scale of what’s happening there is unimaginable,”
said Thomas J. Campanella,
an assistant professor of city
and regional planning at the University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill and the author of the coming book
“The Concrete Dragon,” a chronicle of China’s rise.
“The greatest chapters of American urban development just
pale in comparison to what is happening today in China.”
To read the complete article, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09ipo.html
In search
of a city's spark and soul
News
& Observer (Raleigh)
By
J. Peder Zane, Staff Writer
There are no smoking
gun photographs or sound
recordings to prove that Raleigh made a deal with
the devil. But as the city has prospered beyond our
wildest imagination, some people have wondered
if the price for that growth has been the city's soul.
That question was topic one for the artists, entrepreneurs,
teachers and other creative residents who gathered last
month for the second annual SparkCon festival.
By soul, they did not mean one's eternal spiritual essence but the shade-grown,
free-range, let-the-good-times-roll
energy that puts the hip in your hop. ...The bottom line: If Raleigh
wants to keep prospering, it has got to kindle that
kooky karma that wafts through hipster havens like Asheville.
... In a wide-ranging study that will be published next spring, Emil
Malizia, chairman of the Department of City &
Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill, and four other researchers compared
how well two sets of indicators predicted
economic performance in 263 metropolitan areas across the United States.
..."The general conclusion was that the
traditional measures did a better, if still imperfect, job of predicting
growth," Malizia said in a phone conversation.
"Florida's ideas (economist Richard Florida, author of "The
Rise of the Creative Class") may sound good, but there's
very little science behind them."
In a pivotal finding, Malizia and his collaborators observed that the
creative class is more a reflection than an engine
of economic health: Their numbers correlated with a growth in income
but not in jobs. There are many good reasons
for building vibrant entertainment districts and lush greenways while
nurturing the arts. "But if communities do that
instead of helping retrain displaced workers or using traditional methods
for attracting new businesses," Mailizia said,
"they probably won't enjoy the benefits promises."
To read the complete article, visit: http://www.newsobserver.com/308/story/736432-p2.html
DCRP is happy to
announce the arrival of two new assistant professors to the department
Todd K. BenDor
The overarching goal of Dr. BenDor’s research is to enhance the
ability of policy
makers to understand the spatial and temporal consequences of their
actions and
decisions. To this end, his research combines spatial and temporal
analysis as a
means for better understanding environmental systems and their problem.
Learn more about Dr. BenDor’s
teaching and research
Noreen McDonald
Dr. McDonald studies how the environment influences
travel behavior, particularly for
children. Her current research looks at how the social environment
as well as the built
environment affects travel behavior, particularly where children are
allowed to walk within
their communities. Before coming to UNC, Noreen was a faculty
member at the
University of Virginia.
Learn
more about Dr. McDonald’s teaching and research
Mortgage
rules toughen upThe Citizen-Times (Asheville)
A loan that was supposed to last just long enough to get Barbara Steele into a
three-bedroom North Asheville home and boost her credit score now has the single
mom financially trapped. ...But an expert on home loans said the state law will have
little effect on the cost of credit, which is already climbing thanks to falling housing
prices and reaction to the foreclosure crisis from federal regulators and the lenders
themselves. Similar concerns were aired during consideration of the 1999 law and
haven’t materialized, said Roberto Quercia, DCRP professor and director of the
Center for Community Capitalism at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Quercia said the current law, like its predecessor, shouldn’t make it harder to obtain
credit “Once you put regulation in place — unless it’s extreme, which I don’t think
was the case in North Carolina — the industry adapts, and bad apples get eliminated,”
he said. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770818041
2007 Impact Awards
sponsored by UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School's
Graduate Education Advancement Board
The Impact Awards recognize graduate students whose
research provides special benefits to the citizens of North
Carolina. That impact can be basic as well as applied.
It can have a direct impact on the citizens of North Carolina
(and beyond) or a more indirect impact through new
knowledge or insights gained, educational, economic,
health, social and cultural, or environmental effects that
will be derived from the research endeavor.
This year two DCRP students’ were recognized; Allan
Mathew Freyer and Stephen Whitlow . Freyer developed a
public-private partnership aimed at connecting nonprofit,
faith-based, and community-based organizations to the
state’s workforce development system in an effort to respond
to economic disasters. Whitlow looked at urban distress
communities in North Carolina through the lens of census
tracts to get an alternate representation of distress.
Resources to Recover: A Policy Tool for Responding to Economic
Disasters
Allan Mathew Freyer
Following the closure of the Pillowtex plant in Cabarrus County in 2003,
state and community leaders began to
use the term “economic disasters” to describe the devastating
effects that mass layoffs have on the dislocated
workers who lose their jobs and on their communities. Many of
these dislocated workers face significant barriers
to reemployment and daunting financial, human and social service needs.
Freyer worked with the North Carolina
Rural Center for Economic Development to research and develop a new
nonprofit-centered economic disaster
response program. Using the Pillowtex experience as a guide, Allan
created a framework called the Resources
to Recover program, or R2R, to act as a labor market intermediary between
dislocated workers and the state’s
workforce development system.
The NC R2R would seek to engage with local nonprofit and faith-based
networks in the aftermath of an economic
disaster to mobilize their local affiliates; hold regular meetings for
relevant nonprofits and workforce board
representatives, and hold post-disaster meetings to discuss strategies
for connecting workers to the workforce
development system. Allan’s research indicates that before,
during and after economic disasters, it is critical
that these organizations network together and with the state’s
workforce system. As institutional networks, they
would help displaced North Carolinians navigate what is often a bewildering
maze of information to secure the
job-training resources they need for long-term economic recovery.
Urban
Distressed Communities in North Carolina
Stephen Whitlow (MRP '06)
Stephen Whitlow,
a recent master’s student in City and Regional Planning, co-authored
a report that pinpointed
distressed urban and rural communities in the state. The report
measured indicators of distress at the census
tract level as opposed to the county tract level, suspecting that analyses
at the county level were too broad to
get an accurate measure of distress. County level analyses statically
dilute the prevalence of distress in urban
communities because of the surrounding suburban wealth, lending support
to the incorrect assumption that
economic distress in North Carolina is primarily a rural phenomenon.
Measurements at the census tract level
covered the entire state and were based on a composite score that included
criteria of poverty, unemployment
and per capita income. He found that North Carolina contains a
total of 147 distressed tracts. Of those, 86 are
urban distressed tracts and 61 are rural distressed tracts. His
project also examined the characteristics of urban
distress such as race, economics, education levels, family type, and
housing.
Stephen’s research showed that there are areas of extreme privation
in North Carolina Cities, and that these
areas rival if not surpass the conditions prevalent in rural North Carolina.
Stephen’s project informed the renewal
of the William S. Lee Act that created the Urban Progress Zones in July
2006.
Don't write off incentives yet
News
& Observer (Raleigh)
Point of View: Nichola Lowe
CHAPEL HILL - In recent weeks we have learned about problems inherent
to North Carolina's industrial recruitment efforts. A report from
two private
organizations, CfED in Durham and the N.C. Budget and Tax Center, raises
important and timely questions about the use of tax breaks and financial
giveaways to lure multinational firms to the state, including Dell and
Google.
According to this report, the cost-benefit model used by the state Department
of Commerce overestimates the sales and job creation potential of these
recruitment deals.
The report's revised model for Dell, for example, anticipates job growth
to be 50 percent less than Commerce's original
estimate -- the revised model also anticipates a net revenue loss for
our state. These new estimates raise serious
questions about the calculations used by Commerce and have led to renewed
criticisms of industrial recruitment
spending.
But the Dell and Google deals should not be written off as failures
yet.
Looked at from a different perspective, we might actually see incentive
packages as an opportunity to increase the
performance expectations of recruited firms beyond what economic models
would predict. (Read
more)
(Nichola
Lowe is an assistant professor at DCRP, specializing in economic
and work-force development. She is also a
member of Durham CAN, an organization of congregations, associations
and neighborhoods.)
News
& Observer (Raleigh)
Point of View: Nichola Lowe
Published: Apr 10, 2007
http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/562389.html
Viewpoints
- Friday, April 13, 2007
The
Chapel Hill Town Council has approved two high-rise developments, sparking
debate
on the future look of downtown.
Town should keep its lid on
David Godschalk, UNC Professor
Emeritus
City and Regional Planning Department
In February, the Chapel Hill Town Council took the lid off of
downtown development by approving two projects that forever
will change downtown's character and scale, not necessarily
for the better.
The
public-private project by the town and Ram Development includes an nine-story
condominium on Franklin
Street. The Greenbridge Development project includes a 10-story condominium
on West Rosemary; prices
average \ $650,000 (and rise to $1.4 million). The developers
will reap more profit. What are the public costs,
beyond the massive financial subsidy to Ram?
These towers for the well-to-do will soar above downtown, generating
an ad hoc urban form, with little continuity
or human scale. What if this had happened on campus? High-rise
condos on old campus? Suppose UNC
partnered with a private developer to build 10-story green condos for
wealthy alumni, with token student
apartments, at the Old Well and Carolina Inn.
Would protest be stilled by assurances of reduced sprawl, ecological
friendliness and increased street life?
Of course not. So why didn't the public protest the downtown proposals?
To read David Godschalk’s complete article, visit
The
Daily Tarheel –Opinion
Lead
tests done in good faith
The
Herald-Sun
Ray Gonberg
Durham,
NC - Outside reviewers say that while Durham officials
should have
anticipated that some changes they made to the city's water-treatment
process
could trigger lead contamination, they conducted last year's disputed
testing
for the poisonous element in good faith.
...The city got mixed messages from regulators about its testing procedures,
and
once those procedures became a source of controversy, state officials
compounded
the problem by seeking clarification from the EPA without briefing the
federal agency
on the specifics of Durham's situation.
The specifics included the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural
Resources approval of the city's plan to
draw lead-compliance samples last September -- a signoff given although
the state agency had surrendered its
authority over the timing of the tests, and despite an also-questionable
advisory from the EPA pointing toward a
four-month search starting in June. The state's error was one
it had made "for more than a decade," as DENR
and EPA officials were reading the lead rules differently, reviewers
said. Water Resources Research Institute
Director David Moreau -- a
DCRP professor who's also chairman of the N.C. Environmental Management
Commission -- told Durham's City Council Thursday that there'd been
"massive confusion" and the city "has plenty
of grounds for appealing."
"I'm disappointed that the state of North Carolina gave one set
of instructions in June, consistent with its long-term
interpretation of the rule, and then [six] months after the fact accepts
an EPA interpretation without providing EPA
knowledge that it had advised the city otherwise," Moreau said,
implying that DENR officials had tried to downplay
their own contribution to the problem. But the report also made
it clear the city fully deserved the violation notice it
received over the winter for failing to forward to the state all the
test results it had collected, and said city officials
didn't seem to work well with the Durham County Health Department.
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-836564.cfm
Making the best of big-box hopscotch
Charlotte Observer
Jen Aronoff
Call it the
big-box shuffle: One big retailer heads for richer
pastures up the street and, if a city is lucky, another takes
its place. So far, that's largely been the case in Hickory (NC).
But could it change? The possibility has officials thinking
about how large stores of the future will look. Businesses
have always jockeyed to achieve the best location, attempting
to lure customers with the newest, shiniest stores.
But the advent of suburban strip shopping centers and so-called big-box
stores, and the issues they pose if they become
vacant, have added a dimension to communities' landscapes that didn't
exist 50 or, in the Unifour, even 20 years ago.
At stake are local character and quality of life. Particularly
because of their size, big boxes are "a public asset as well
as a private asset, not just a store that somebody owns," noted
Emil Malizia, a professor
of city and regional planning
at UNC Chapel Hill.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/226/v-print/story/62564.html
Researchers hear about affordable housing needs
The Wilmington Star-News
Shannan Bowen
When
concerned residents, real estate agents, developers and community advocates
gathered Friday to discuss affordable housing, one thing was repeated:
Brunswick
County has a serious need. ...William
Rohe (DCRP professor) and Spencer
Cowan
(Ph.D. 2002), from the Center for Urban
and Regional Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill,
are conducting the study to assess the needs and to develop strategies
to provide
more affordable housing.
...Rohe and Cowan will use Census data, interviews with county leaders,
and interviews with residents and community
advocates in their study. The study consists of four parts: a
housing-needs assessment, an assessment of existing
housing resources, an inventory of tools and strategies, and recommendations
for expanding the supply of affordable
housing. "This is a very important issue that the county
and towns need to address," Rohe said. "I'm pleased
to find
that there is going to be at least a recognition of the need,"
he said. "There's a movement growing here."
The study, sponsored by the N.C. Association of Community Development
Corporations, will provide county leaders
and advocacy groups with a jumping-off point for implementing affordable
housing initiatives.
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070317/NEWS/703170385/1017/SPORTS0701
Lot
5, Votes key to town's future
Jesse
James DeConto
Chapel Hill News
February 2006
February
brings two major decisions that could radically change the
Chapel Hill skyline and foreshadow the town's future growth pattern.
On Monday, the Town Council will vote on a final contract with Ram
Development Co. to build a $75-million, eight-story project on a town-
owned parking lot at the corner of Franklin and Church streets. The
town would contribute $7.25 million toward underground parking.
Elected officials and business leaders have heralded the proposed
condominium tower on Parking Lot 5 as the spark that will prompt
other developers to invest downtown.
"This was a signal event," said David
Godschalk, a former Town Council member, retired professor of city
and regional planning,
and critic of the Lot 5 plan. "The council basically announced
they were taking the lid off development downtown. ... The sky's
the limit."
Already, a group of private developers is pursuing permits for a $50-million,
10-story, eco-friendly condominium complex called
Greenbridge along West Rosemary Street between North Graham Street and
Merritt Mill Road. On Feb. 26, the council will
consider creating a new zoning district, rezoning 1.3 acres of land
and granting a land-use permit for Greenbridge. These two
projects alone would bring hundreds of new residents to downtown, not
to mention other major developments being planned near
downtown. Just what that means for Chapel Hill depends on whom you ask.
…Mai
Nguyen, a professor in the city and regional planning department
at UNC, said the condominium towers may erode the
sense of community in Northside by raising property values and forcing
out low-income residents who can't afford the taxes.
That, she said, would prevent Chapel Hill from becoming a strong city.
"You're not going to have this richness and diversity that
makes cities interesting," she said.
As it is,
said Emil Malizia, the chairman
of Nguyen's department, Chapel Hill functions more like a bedroom community
for the
rest of the Triangle, and downtown development -- unless it brings lots
of jobs -- probably won't change that. "I don't really think
that individual projects like Greenbridge or what's going on at Lot
5 are significant enough in scale to change the character of a
place," he said.
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/100/story/5399.html
Your 40-year career: A conversation with Paul Farmer
During his recent visit to Raleigh, APA Executive Director and CEO
Paul Farmer, met with DCRP students to discuss how to establish
a solid professional planning career. Farmer was in Raleigh to
give
opening remarks at the recent Raleigh Department of Planning’s
conference, “Designing the 21st Century City”.
Paul
Farmer is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the
American Planning Association (APA) and the American Institute of
Certified Planners (AICP). Prior to serving with the APA, Mr. Farmer
was
Executive Director of the Department of Planning and Development in
Eugene, Oregon and, prior to that, was Director of the Minneapolis
Department of City Planning, where he worked with the Minneapolis Planning
Commission to rebuild the city's planning department
and make innovative changes. During this time he worked on a broad spectrum
of planning topics, including affordable housing,
transportation, historic preservation, economic development, downtown
revitalization, and zoning codes. He has also taught
planning at several universities.
Help through dialogue
Agencies laud hands-on approach to homeless
The Sun News
(Myrtle Beach)
By Josh Hoke
A
recent count of homeless in the Myrtle Beach recorded a nearly 400-person
decrease
from 2005, but officials say they don't expect the change to significantly
affect federal
funding for programs aimed at helping that population.
...Those figures show that the politicians in Washington, D.C., understand
the problem, said Bill Rohe,
director of the
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
at the University of North Carolina. However, he warns that money
won't be the
only solution. "We
are going to have to be creative," he said. "We've got to
look an increased amount into homeless
assistance. ... It's clear the problem of homelessness is
very multifaceted. It's going to require people from a variety of
different government, nonprofit and for-profit agencies to cooperate."
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/16764603.htm
Living Near Shops, Subways Linked to Lower BMI in New York City
Health Behavior News Service
New York City dwellers who reside in densely populated, pedestrian-friendly
areas
have significantly lower body mass index levels compared to other New
Yorkers, a
new study finds.
...This research is important because it shows that environmental factors
have a
significant relationship to obesity, said Emil
Malizia, Ph.D., chair of the department
of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
http://www.hbns.org/getDocument.cfm?documentID=1445
Raleigh Council Approves Roundabout Plan
Melissa Buscher
www.wral.com
After
going in circles for months, the Raleigh City Council approved
a plan to put two roundabouts in the Hillsborough Street area. The
City
Council passed the measure Tuesday by a vote of 6-2, with council
members Philip Isley and Tommy Craven opposing the plan. The
plan
calls for two roundabouts, possibly four, but it will not include the
11
roundabouts that were originally proposed.
...“The roundabouts and the parking
are the key to changing the character of the street. It will slow the
traffic and it will not
only slow it but create a sense of place here which has been what's
missing for many years,” said George Chapman (MRP '63)
of the Hillsborough Street
Partnership.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1209006/
Chasing
the American Dream
New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership
Edited by William Rohe and Harry
Watson
Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income
families
has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In
recent years
there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus
on providing
affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities.
Due in part
to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the
nation's
homeownership rate is currently at an all-time high. Does a house
become a home
only when it comes with a deed attached? Is participation in the
real-estate market a
precondition to engaged citizenship or wealth creation? The real
estate industry's
marketing efforts and government policy initiatives might lead one to
believe so.
The shift in emphasis from rental subsidies to affordable homeownership
opportunities has been justified in a variety of ways.
Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted
without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always
beneficial for low-income Americans, or are its benefits undermined
by the difficulties caused by unfavorable mortgage terms
and by the poor condition or location of the homes bought? Chasing
the American Dream provides a critical assessment of
affordable homeownership policies and goals. Its contributors
represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offer a
thorough understanding of the economic, social, political, architectural,
and cultural effects of homeownership programs, as
well as their history. The editors draw together the assessments
included in this book to prescribe a plan of action that lays
out what must be done to make homeownership policy both effective and
equitable.
Available in MAY 2007, 312 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 33 tables, 15 charts/graphs,
3 maps, 33 halftones, 10 line figures
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4553-8
Where's the soul?
Raleigh has friendly folks -- smart ones too -- a good standard of living and a championship
hockey team, but ...
News & Observer (Raleigh)
MATT EHLERS
It might smell a little funny, but New York City has one, thin and greasy like a mobster's backstory
-- or a slice of pepperoni pie. It is extremely loud, somewhat angry and might speak an unfamiliar
language. The city's melting pot helps define it, along with the swagger that comes with being a
world-class destination, a town that offers incomparable choice and opportunity.
... Raleigh? Bless its heart.
I'm talking about soul: those bits, pieces and intangibles that help define a city to the outside world and create some cohesiveness
within it. For all its domination on lists of best places to live, Raleigh lacks a little something in the Department of Soul. City soul
isn't easily definable. But to me, it's a shared attitude, a community image and a singular style, smooshed together and bound
with emotion. Memphis and Boston have soul. Durham, embracing its industrial past while resuscitating downtown, has plenty.
In Raleigh, you have to search a little harder.
... With all the academics in our area, I figure calling one would be a good idea. So I find Roberto G. Quercia, associate professor
of city and regional planning and a faculty fellow at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He teaches
courses on houses and housing finance. I ask him: Does Raleigh have a soul? "I think Raleigh, as many cities, has many souls,"
he says. Quercia uses New York City as an example. Manhattan is different from Brooklyn or Long Island. In a city, there are as
many souls as neighborhoods. ..."I think souls change over time," Quercia says.
http://www.newsobserver.com/716/story/537669.html
Residents weigh in on Hillsborough project
Apartment developers say they'll consider requests from
Neighborhood Watch
News & Observer (Raleigh)
Cheryl Johnston Sadgrove
A proposed
plan to turn the old Flynt Fabrics mill into 85 upscale
apartments met with conditional support by West Hillsborough neighbors
at a public hearing Tuesday night.
Several neighbors spoke in favor of the residential redevelopment of
the
empty mill buildings that front Nash Street, but expressed concern about
pedestrian safety on Bellevue Avenue, a narrow residential street with
no
sidewalks, which will take about 65 percent of the traffic from the
project.
Stephen Whitlow, a neighborhood resident
and a graduate student in the city planning department at UNC-Chapel
Hill,
started with the benefits of the redevelopment as he spoke on behalf
of 30 to 40 residents involved with the West
Hillsborough Neighborhood Watch. "When we talk about good
planning in my department, we're talking specifically about
this type of development," Whitlow said. "It's the recycling
of our resources. Additionally the location of 85 units here as
opposed to on the periphery of town is likely to increase pedestrian
activity and lead to revitalization of existing shops on
Nash Street," he added.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/535512.html
DCRP
Alumnus Weiming Lu receives Distinguished
Alumnus Award
University Day
October 12, 2006
Held each year since 1877, University Day serves as a celebratory
reminder of the University's beginnings and also highlights the
contributions of UNC alumni to society. This year DCRP alumnus
Weiming Lu was recognized. During his visit, Lu also met with
students and delivered an address entitled “Symbiotic Approach
to Urban Rejuvenation”.
Weiming Lu received his M.R.P. degree from Carolina in 1957 and
is one of the most respected urban planners in the United States
today. Carrying out the principles of land use planning instilled
by
Stuart Chapin, John Parker, James Webb and Shirley Weiss,
Lu has been a remarkably effective implementer of progressive
civil planning and design.
As president of St. Paul, Minnesota 's Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation
for more than 20 years, Lu has helped
transform the city's waterfront district into a vibrant “urban
village.” He has been an advisor on major urban design
projects around the world, including the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic
Games, redevelopment of the Chattanooga,
Tennessee riverfront, and the reconstruction of South Central Los Angeles
following the 1992 riots.
Lu currently serves as planning advisor to the Mayor of Beijing and
has played a key role in directing the Chinese
capital's explosive growth toward a sustainable future. Lu has
lectured at MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and Tsinghua
University in Beijing, and has been a visiting professor at Tokyo University.
His professional work has been featured
in many publications and films, and in exhibitions at the Walker Art
Center and Dallas Art Museum. Lu is a member
of the Committee of 100, a national organization of Chinese American
leaders in the arts, academic, public service,
business and science, and served as advisor to Minnesota Governor Jesse
Ventura's trade mission to China in 2001.
Weiming Lu is the second DCRP recipient of this prestigious award; Professor
Emerita Shirley Weiss was
acknowledged in 2003. Lu was nominated by Professors Thomas Campanella,
David Godschalk, and Emil Malizia.
http://www.unc.edu/universityday/
Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness: Building Resilient Communities
David J. Brower, Anna K. Schwab, Katherine Eschelbach
Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness is designed to introduce students to some
of the major principles involved in preparing for and mitigating the impacts of
hazards in the context of emergency management. The text defines basic terms
and concepts, and describes the key features and characteristics of various
hazards, both natural and manmade that can affect our communities. The book
outlines the risk assessment process that is used to determine community
vulnerability, and includes an in-depth discussion of hazard mitigation planning.
Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness also provides examples of various tools and
techniques available to emergency managers to prevent or lessen property damage
and risk to human life caused by disasters. Several chapters are devoted to
explaining the role of the federal, state and local governments in developing and
carrying out hazard mitigation and preparedness policies, as well as the role that
the private sector can play in protecting economic vitality.
David Brower is a Research Professor at DCRP and teaches courses in land use and environmental planning,
environmental ethics, planning law, coastal zone management, and sustainable development. His research interests include
growth management, coastal zone management, integrating the impacts of natural hazards, sustainable development, and
environmental ethics. Dr. Brower is currently working to create a graduate course for the Federal Emergency Management
Agency's Emergency Management Higher Education Project.
For more information visit the Wiley Higher Education Web site @ www.wiley.com
Water Privatization
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
UNC-Chapel Hill professor David Moreau was featured on today's (Dec. 7)
edition of "The State of Things" discussing the history of water privatization
in the state, the ethical implications and the economic impact of privately
owned water supplies.
Access to clean water is a basic human right, but private water companies are springing up all over North Carolina to provide
the utility service to residents…for a fee. http://www.wunc.org/tsot/
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m.
Mondays-Thursdays and 6 a.m. on Saturdays.
Planners and Politics
Roger S. Waldon (MRP’76)
Planning is an inherently political process. Planners can choose to see politics
as an obstacle, or they can use politics as a vehicle for meeting community goals.
The eight planners profiled in this book have mastered the art of working within the
political system to get things done. Their success stories are object lessons in
building support for initiatives while maintaining credibility and integrity.
Table of Contents
• Practice Advocacy When It's Needed Alec Bash, AICP San Francisco, CA
• Focus on Citizen Engagement Peter Pollock, FAICP Boulder, CO
• Embrace the Politics Steven Anderson Liberty, MO
• Be Willing to Revisit Previous Decisions Paul Farmer, FAICP Pittsburgh, PA
• Ideas Need Champions Maxine Griffith, AICP Philadelphia, PA
• The Role of the Private Sector Karen Walz, FAICP Dallas, TX
• The Planner as Elected Official David Godschalk, FAICP Chapel Hill, NC
For more information visit the following link: 8 Planners - Success Stories (PDF)
Dear Alumni,
I was indeed very happy to see so many friends during the Reunion weekend.
I hope you enjoyed yourself as much
as I did and felt that your time spent in Chapel Hill was informative
and fun.
For those who couldn't attend, the
following should give you a window on the Reunion events and provide
reasons to attend next time.
DCRP
Alumni Reunion Weekend
- Celebrating 60 years
Best to All,
Emil
Race and Wealth in America - A 25
Year Journey for Social Justice
Martin Eakes, Siler
Distinguished Lecturer
In front of an audience of 200 alumni and guests, Martin Eakes delivered
a stirring keynote address. Chronicling his
upbringing in the desegregated South, Eakes shared his experiences in
a racially mixed neighborhood where he
witnessed first-hand the disparity of opportunity between the haves
and the have nots.
Eakes’
life experiences created the fire in his belly that led him on the journey
to creating Self-Help.
Though the use
of brief video clips and the re-telling of his powerful personal stories,
Eakes led the audience through his vision of
supporting entrepreneurs and creating home ownership opportunities.
Owning assets can enable a family to send a
child to college, start a business, or weather a financial crisis.
In closing, Eakes stressed the importance in getting
involved and removing barriers that unfairly prevent people from becoming
active members of society. Eakes also
warned the audience of the potential threats facing our communities
as millions of home mortgages face potential
foreclosure.
More information:
The
Robert and Helen Siler Distinguished Lecturer Series
Johnston may hit brakes
Commissioners consider moratorium on new homes until a plan
managing growth is adopted
News & Observer (Raleigh)
Marti Maguire
Johnston County
never looked back when its livelihood turned from
growing tobacco to growing houses in the 1990s. While other Triangle
counties have placed controls on development -- either by restricting
where homes and businesses can go or forcing builders to pay for
schools and roads -- Johnston has continued to welcome it.
But now even Johnston leaders are giving growth a second look. In
a surprise move last month, the county planning board
voted unanimously to stop approving new homes temporarily until the
county adopts new recommendations on managing
growth. Commissioners must approve the measure for it to take
effect; they'll consider it today. While they don't appear
likely to halt development, the vote could signal the start of a larger
battle over how to manage growth.
… Controlling growth also has its problems. Stricter zoning,
for example, means some landowners might have fewer options
of what to do with their property. But the alternative, David
Godschalk said, is uncertainty about issues such as where your
child will go to school and what you'll see out your window. "The
downfall is usually a kind of chaos where you never know
what's going to happen next door to you," Godschalk said.
"You tend to get a kind of hodgepodge pattern that in the end
nobody's happy with."
http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/506979.html
Hue Goes There?
Carolina peels back layers of paint in search of its true colors
Carolina Alumni Review
David E. Brown ‘75
One day not long
ago, Paul Kapp was called out of a meeting. Associate
Vice Chancellor Bruce Runberg was standing in the hall holding a cell
phone.
The chancellor was on the other end of it. New West is wrong,
James Moeser
said. Kapp is the campus historic preservation architect, and
the previous day
had been maybe his worst one in Chapel Hill, so he was talking straight
when
he told Moeser, “I’m on it.” He’d gone
to bed knowing that New West and New
East, the Italianate twins built at the dawn of the Civil War to flank
Old West
and Old East, were different colors. The contractor had messed
up and missed
the real color by a couple of tones. And, after many decades of flirting
with every
cute blob on the painter’s palette, Carolina apparently is done
messing up colors.
…Now
a historically correct rainbow is emerging, and it’s not guesswork
based on faded black-and-whites from the early years
of photography. An architectural conservator using a micro-scalpel and
a stereo microscope has analyzed the buildings down to
their bones, producing coat-over-coat histories that look like a scoop
of that vanilla-chocolate-strawberry ice cream with three
more colors thrown in. Colors are revealed along with history…
(read more)
How high is too high?
Tall projects could change downtown
Chapel Hill News
Staff writer Lisa Hoppenjans
CHAPEL HILL --
In five years or so, nine-story condominium
buildings could replace church steeples as the tallest structures
downtown. Four planned residential developments stand to
bring an estimated 800 new residents downtown.
They'll boost downtown businesses, but some worry Chapel Hill
will lose more than it gains.
"Any building can be a beautiful addition, can be well designed
and can be an asset to the community," said Catherine Frank,
executive director of The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. "But
I also believe an incredibly important part of what creates
the atmosphere of our downtown is its human scale, and I'm afraid that
as we start to lose that human scale, we will be
Anytown, U.S.A."
…The town has also shown a preference toward downtown density
as a means of meeting housing demand while avoiding
sprawl. But to accommodate nine-story buildings, the town will have
to offer exceptions to its 90-foot height limit downtown.
Historically, height limits were created for health and safety reasons,
including making sure occupants would have time to
escape from a burning building. Later codes considered limiting
height to allow more sunlight at street level,
said Emil Malizia, chair
of UNC's department of city and regional planning. Municipalities
are also now concerned about
preserving "human scale," Malizia said. "To some
extent, the concern for appearance became more and more prominent
over time," he said. "We developed a sense of what would be
appropriate for the place."
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/100/story/2726.html
Care vs. Constraints
Why people say yes -- and no -- to living in a continuing-care community
The Wall Street Journal
By Glenn Ruffenach
“I think the [equity] ownership issue is certainly a factor,
and it's a deciding factor
for a lot of people,” says David
Godschalk. “We think it's more important for us to
look at the place, particularly the health-care options that are there,
the values of
the people that are there, the kind of compatibility -- the personality
of the place.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115928389771474326-email.html
Note: Subscription required to view article
NEURUS Continental Seminar
UNC Chapel Hill
September 22-23
The Network for European and U.S. Regional and Urban
Studies (NEURUS),
a
consortium of six universities in the U.S. and Europe, is based on a
concept of
education consonant with emerging territorial integration and heightened
global
interchange. Through the use of the internet, international student
exchanges,
and transcontinental seminars, NEURUS aims to make resources and expertise
of each partner university available to students at of the other universities.
Once each semester, NEURUS members meet for a seminar at one of the
participating universities. This year students
and faculty visited UNC Chapel Hill. The seminar provides the
opportunity for students present their research designs
and interim results to faculty and peers. Students use feedback
from the seminar as a guide for their year-long research
projects. This year’s seminar excursion was to the newly
redeveloped American
Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham.
Participation in NEURUS invites access to urban and regional scholars,
top ranked research universities, and collaborating
public and private agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. The
centerpiece of the program, the NEURUS Student Exchange,
offers students an opportunity to enhance their study of urban or regional
issues by spending a semester abroad conducting
research and taking courses under the guidance of local faculty and
participating policy agencies.
DCRP's Dr. Harvey Goldstein
is NEURUS's U.S. coordinator. The
seminar is sponsored by the DCRP and the UNC Chapel
Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities.
DCRP Diversity Workshop
Planning for diverse communities
September 15th
This second annual department-wide workshop focused
on diversity issues and professional development for
planners. Our students recognize the increasing diversity
of the communities in which they will work as well as the
necessity for planners to be responsive to the needs
of diverse populations.
The workshop was divided into a morning (first-years only) and afternoon (department-wide) session:
The goal of the morning workshop was to strengthen the group by exposing them to issues of diversity and inequality in
our society. Dr. Charlotte Hamlin facilitated the morning session. She is a communication consultant, diversity
trainer and instructor in interpersonal and multicultural communication at Guilford College.
The afternoon session saw the department join the 1st years students and focused its discussion on combining diversity
issues with planning. Dr. John Cooper (Ph.D. ’04) of MDC, Inc. facilitated this workshop. His work focuses on community
development, environmental justice, dispute resolution, public policy research, emergency management, and land use
planning. Dr. Cooper assists the Program for the Rural Carolinas and directs the FEMA Emergency Preparedness
Demonstration Program.
A link to a recent Op-Ed letter Dr. Cooper wrote in the Raleigh News and Observer: Building on strengths in disaster
This training is part of the outgrowth of the Department's
student-led visioning process and is in line with departmental
priorities. Diversity at DCRP
Current DCRP Diversity Committee members:
Faculty: Phil
Berke and Mai Nguyen
Students: Leigh
Ann Cienek, Emily Price and
Lisa Miller
It Takes Villages
Carolina Alumni Review
John Manuel (MRP '76)
Chapel Hill, always wary of where and how
fast it
should grow, sprouted dense suburban development
under the careful watch of planner Roger Waldon '76.
Now all eyes are on the burgeoning downtown.
Chapel Hill is noted for resisting any number of things.
It kept a tight grip on its self-image as a village long after
it had moved into the realm of being a town. Today, it is
being transformed into a small city. Traffic backs up at
rush hour, and convenient parking can be hard to find, but
most agree the quality of development is high, and the
desire to live here remains strong.
Enter Chapel Hill from a couple of directions and you see what is meant
today by the word “village”: To the east on
N.C. 54 stands Meadowmont Village, considered a model of “new
urbanism.” To the south off U.S. 15-501 is Southern
Village — like Meadowmont, a mixed-use development. Elsewhere,
drivers approaching downtown on West Franklin
Street pass an array of new and renovated buildings. Head north,
and as you cross over I-40, you enter a distinctly
different space, with open woods and farmland — you’ve just
experienced the town’s Urban Growth Boundary.
To the extent that all of this reflects the philosophy and practice
of the town’s planning department, Roger Waldon ’76
(MRP) had a lot to do with it. Waldon came to Chapel Hill to attend
UNC’s School of City and Regional Planning in 1975,
when concern for both the environment and social justice were beginning…
Read
the complete story (PDF)
The General Alumni Association
is dedicated to the continuing service of the University and its alumni.
Through our
programs, the Association promotes a spirit of fellowship and loyalty
among the alumni, provides a continuous flow
of information on the progress and needs of the University and encourages
united alumni support for its advancement.
Top Ten Reasons
to be a member
UNC has proud tradition of historic preservation
The Chapel
Hill Herald (Letter to the editor)
Paul Kapp, UNC-Chapel Hill campus historic preservation
manager
After reading last Friday's editorial, "UNC should work to save
old buildings," I would like to point out that Carolina's program
in preserving and restoring its campus is perhaps the most
ambitious of its kind in the country.
I am very proud of our record and I believe we have continued to
make the university special through our extensive program of
renovating its beautiful buildings and grounds.
In the past
year, we have restored both New West and New East. We replaced
the roofs on Bynum and Caldwell
halls, restored the exterior of Phillips Hall and completely renovated
Kenan, Alderman and McIver residence halls.
I believe everyone in the community is delighted about the beauty and
grandeur of the renovated Memorial Hall.
We have also paid attention to some of our smaller monuments such as
the Morehead Sundial, having restored
it three years ago, and created new gardens such as the Memorial Grove
and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Garden.
A month ago, Chancellor Moeser and President Bowles, along with the
Center for the Study of the American South,
celebrated the ongoing renovation of the Center's new home, the Love
House and Hutchins Forum, a historic house
on East Franklin Street. We are also halfway done renovating the
Campus Y. At Carolina, we continue to fit
historic preservation within the parameters of our mission, and it is
for that reason we have received the
Preservation Society of Chapel Hill Preservation Award the past three
years.
Paul Hardin Kapp
UNC-Chapel Hill campus historic preservation manager
Learn more about New
East’s historic past
Public may get input on project
The Chapel Hill Herald
By Emily Coakley
Hillsborough, NC - Town officials are considering ways for the
community to share their ideas on how Daniel Boone Village
could be redeveloped. Roger Waldon (MRP '76), a consultant
who is working with the town on a strategic growth plan,
suggested a charette.
A charette is an event that, in this situation, would allow people without a design background to work with those
that do. Members of the public, for example, give ideas about what they want to see at the site. The designers
would then translate the suggestions to drawings. The drawings at the end of the day wouldn't map out every
tree or parking space, but it would show building placement and different uses.
... Tom Campanella, a planning and design professor at UNC who serves on the town's Planning Board, said...
"The whole notion of soliciting community input in the urban planning and design process, using planning
workshops or a 'design charette,' is really one of the hallmarks of American democracy."
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-756697.html
Counting on condos
By Lisa Hoppenjans
Chapel Hill News
The brick building on East Franklin Street once housed students and
others in modest apartments with Murphy beds that folded out of the
walls. Now, nail guns pound and power saws buzz inside.
In November,
McCorkle Place will open with $880,000 to $1.1 million luxury condominiums
with gourmet kitchens and marble tiled bathrooms, right across from
the
oak-dotted UNC quad that shares its name.
"I think there's a lot of pent-up demand for this kind of close-in
living," said
Kelley Hunter, a listing agent for the property. Developers are
banking on it.
About 1,000 new residential units, more than 800 of them condominiums,
are
planned in and around downtown Chapel Hill.
Some wonder whether the market can sustain that pace.
"The big question that no one knows is: How deep is demand?"
said Emil Malizia, chairman
of the city and regional
planning department at UNC. "If you show up in a community
with the first bar of soap that anybody has ever seen,
you might sell out the first couple of times. But how long before
you saturate the market?"
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/2977196p-9408366c.html
Building on strengths in disaster (Opinion-editorial
column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
John Cooper (Ph.D. 2004)
With the height of hurricane season still a month or two away and
the memory of last year's devastation of the Gulf Coast still fresh,
there is still time to rethink our approach to disaster preparedness,
especially for the poor and disadvantaged in our communities.
These groups are no less informed about disasters than others, but the
consequences of not being informed
for them are more severe: they tend to live in low-lying flood-prone
areas and in houses less able to withstand
the forces of nature; they don't have the money needed to stockpile
food and water or make other recommended
disaster preparations; they struggle to evacuate; and don't have the
savings, insurance or access to credit
necessary for recovery. For these groups preparedness is vital.
With the support of FEMA, over the past year we've been figuring out
how to increase levels of awareness and
preparedness among disadvantaged people in order to reduce the impact
of disasters on them...
http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/445516.html
John
Cooper (Ph.D. 2004) manages the FEMA Emergency Preparedness Demonstration
Project at MDC Inc.
of Chapel Hill, in cooperation with UNC's Center for Urban and Regional
Studies.
Feeling the Heat
endeavors Spring 2006
by Mark Derewicz
Big houses, long commutes
...Carolina researchers agree that the federal government
should lead the way on global warming and peak oil, but
they also agree that these issues have deep roots that all
of us should understand.
Our sustainability nightmare began with the American
dream - suburbia.
At the turn of the twentieth century, cities were crowded and polluted,
which caused public health problems.
The government subsidized cars, oil, and highway construction. Banks
gave better mortgage deals for suburban
development. “We subsidized our way into sprawl,”
says Philip Berke, professor
of city and regional planning
and chair of environmental studies. From an economic standpoint,
it made sense. Environmentally, the problems
keep popping up.
…Berke believes that we should concentrate commercial and residential
areas together and then provide mass
transit if none exists. “There’s a notion that transit
is expensive,” he says. “Well, so are highways.”
Transit-
oriented developments would justify alternative forms of transportation,
he says.
There are favorable trends. Since 1990, city centers of Charlotte,
Raleigh, and Durham have gained popularity.
Some towns are building up instead of out. And, according to Berke,
more than one million Americans have
moved into planned new urban communities, such as Southern Village and
Meadowmont in Chapel Hill.
…Also, Berke says, education is essential, starting with elementary
school-age kids. As for the rest of us,
we’ll likely have to adjust our lifestyles.
To read the complete article, including comments from other
Carolina researchers, visit:
http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/spr2006/feature_01.php
Stegman receives Thomas Jefferson Award
Celebrating 40 years of service devoted to expanding
affordable housing
UNC - Chapel Hill
Former DCRP faculty member and department chair,
Dr. Michael A. Stegman, has been honored by his peers
with the 2006 Thomas Jefferson Award. The annual
Thomas Jefferson Award honors a UNC faculty member
who, through personal influence and performance of duty
in teaching, writing and scholarship, has best exemplified
the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson. UNC faculty
members nominate candidates for the honor; a faculty
committee chooses the recipient. The award was presented
by Chancellor James Moeser at a recent Faculty Council
meeting.
At the meeting, Stegman - a UNC faculty member for 40 years - announced
that he would be retiring in July to work
full-time for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program
on Human and Community Development
as director of policy. Last year, Stegman was appointed to
develop policy for the program in a part-time capacity,
while he also fulfilled his UNC responsibilities. In his role
as director of policy, he will oversee implementation of program
policy and serve as the foundation's lead observer of domestic policy
issues in affordable housing, community change,
mental health, juvenile justice, education and urban and regional policy.
Dr. Richard "Pete" Andrews, Thomas Willis Lambeth distinguished
professor of public policy, and Dr.
William M. Rohe,
Cary C. Boshamer professor of city and regional planning and director
of the UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies,
wrote the citation honoring Stegman. "Like Jefferson,
Professor Stegman has devoted his life to the pursuit of knowledge
as well as to the application of that knowledge to improve the lives
of our country's citizens, particularly its less fortunate
ones," Andrews and Rohe wrote.
Stegman joined UNC's faculty, in the College of Arts and Sciences' department
of city and regional planning, in 1966.
Between 1982 and 1992, he was chairman of the department. In
1997, Stegman created the Center for Community
Capitalism, based in the Kenan-Flagler Business School's Frank Hawkins
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. He
currently directs the center, which engages in multi-disciplinary research
and outreach focused on applying private-sector
knowledge to revitalizing distressed communities.
"Professor Stegman has devoted his career to expanding affordable
housing for all Americans, financial services for the poor
and working poor and asset-building opportunities," Andrews and
Rohe wrote in their citation. "He is a prolific contributor
to
both the scholarly and professional literature, having written 12 books
and monographs, 24 book chapters and 65 journal
articles. Many of these publications have led to new programs
and policies with direct and tangible benefits to low-and
moderate-income households."
Urban
Land Use Planning
fifth edition
Berke, Godschalk, and Kaiser, with Rodríguez
Urban Land
Use Planning provides authoritative answers to the perennial
question in urban planning: How can we create a livable, sustainable
future?
This fifth edition of the “bible” of urban planning presents
a complete,
up-to-date, and holistic methodology for creating and enacting plans
to
reach those goals, deftly balancing the definitive discussion of current
practices with a vision of what land use planning should become.
“The
5th Edition continues and updates the long tradition of ULUP
in
DCRP with the new plan-making practices that utilize sustainable
development and livable communities approaches," says Phil
Berke.
"We want to express our deep gratitude to all the alumni who took
the
course as students, constantly challenging us to improve methodology
and explore new methods.”
For more book information and how to order