Readings

Required Texts

[AD] = Nicolas P. Retsinas, Eric S. Belsky, eds. Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Program, and Priorities. Brookings Institution Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780815774112.

[LB] = Blakely, and Leigh. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice. Sage Publications, 2013. ISBN: 9781412960939.

[SF] = Fainstein, Susan. The Just City. Cornell University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780801446559. [Preview with Google Books]

[EM] = Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. ISBN: 9780547750118. [Preview with Google Books]

[JD] = DeFilippis, James, and Susan Saegert. The Community Development Reader. Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 97804155007769. [Preview with Google Books]

[RP] = Pendall, Rolf, et al. The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America. Edited by Xavier Briggs. Brookings Institution Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780815708735.

[IE] = James H. Carr, Nandinee K. Kutty, eds. Segregation: The Rising Costs for America. Routledge, 2008, pp. 261–78. ISBN: 9780415965347. [Preview with Google Books]

[JC] = Corburn, Jason. Toward the Healthy City: People, Places and the Politics of Urban Planning. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262513074.

SES #	TOPICS	REQUIRED
Part I: Foundations
1	Introductory Class: The “just city” in context	[SF] Chapter 2 and 3: “Justice and Urban Transformation” and “New York.”
2	The Just City: Equitable development in comparative context	[SF] Chapter 1, 5, and 6: “Introduction,” “Amsterdam,” and “Conclusion.” Harvey, David. “Places, Regions, Territories.” Chapter 8 in Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. Columbia University Press, 2009, pp. 166–201. ISBN: 9780231148467. [Preview with Google Books] Teitz, Michael B., and Karen Chapple. “Planning and Poverty: An Uneasy Relationship.” In Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, pp. 205–23. ISBN: 9780812222395. [Preview with Google Books]
3	Demographic shifts and neighborhood change: Segregation, migration, and aging	[RP] Chapter 1: Through ("…segregated housing patterns"), pp. 1–5. [RP] Chapter 2: More Pluribus, Less Unum? The Changing Geography of Race and Opportunity. Skim Main Findings [RP] Chapters 3 and 4. Massey, Douglas, ed. Chapters 1 and 2 in New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration. Russell Sage Foundation, 2010, pp. 1–50. ISBN: 9780871545688. Myers, Dowell. Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, pp. 199–224. ISBN: 9780871546364. [Preview with Google Books]
4	Income, wealth, and the political economy of inequality	[EM] “Introduction.” [EM] Chapters 1 and 3. Levy, Frank, and Peter Temin. “Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America.” (PDF) NBER Working Paper, 2007. Hacker, Jacob, and Paul Pierson. “The Winner Take All Economy.” Chapter 1 in Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. Simon and Schuster, 2010, pp. 11–40. ISBN: 9781416588696. [Preview with Google Books]
5	Civic context: Engagement and political representation	Gilens, Marty. “Policy Consequences of Representational Inequality.” In Who Gets Represented. Edited by Enns and Wlezien. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. ISBN: 9780871542427. Thompson, J. Phillip. “Is Empowerment Possible?” In Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities and the Call for a Deep Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780195177336. Newman, Katherine. “In the South and West, a Tax on Being Poor,” The New York Times, September 3, 2013. Cohen, Cathy J. “Minority Report: Kanye West, Barack Obama, and Political Alienation.” In Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780195378009. [Preview with Google Books]
6	The nature of community in 21st century America: Networks, places, social capital	[JD] “What Community Supplies.” Chaskin, Robert. “Building Community Capacity A Definitional Framework and Case Studies from a Comprehensive Community Initiative.” Urban Affairs Review 36, no. 3 (2001): 291–323. Chaskin, Robert, and Mark Joseph. “Building ‘Community’ in Mixed-income Developments Assumptions, Approaches, and Early Experiences.” Urban Affairs Review 45, no. 3 (2010): 299–335. Briggs, Xavier, et al. Selected pages, including “When your Neighborhood is not your Community.” In Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780195392845. [Preview with Google Books]
Part II: Community-based Organizing and Development
7	History and development: Politics and program	[JD] Chapter 1: Communities Develop: The Question is How? von Hoffman, Alexander. “The Past, Present and Future of Community Development in the United States.” In Investing in What Works for America’s Communities Essays on People Place & Purpose. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Low Income Investment Fund, 2012. ISBN: 9780615681528. [JD] DeFilippis, James. Chapter 3: Community Control and Development: The Long View. [JD] O’Connor, Alice. Chapter 2: Swimming Against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities.
8	Institutional context	Ferguson, Ronald F., and Sarah E. Stoutland. “Reconceiving the Community Development Field.” In Urban Problems and Community Development. Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780815718758. Video Detroit LISC. “The History of Detroit LISC.” June 1, 2011. YouTube. (Approx 14 minutes.) [JD] Glickman, Norman J., and Lisa J. Servon. Chapter 6: More than Bricks and Sticks. Briggs, Xavier de Souza. “Rethinking Community Development.” (PDF) Working Smarter in Community Development, 2007. (Brief 1) Erickson, Peter J. “Building the Decentralized Housing Network” and “The Decentralized Housing Network and the Rise of a New Institution.” Chapters 2 and 5 in The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighbors. Urban Institute, 2009, pp. 35–68 and 145–61. ISBN: 9780877667605.
9	Governance at multiple scales (neighborhood, city, region)	[JD] Stoecker, Randy. “The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative.” [JD] Greenberg, David Micah. “How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing.” Briggs, Xavier de Souza. “Networks, Power and a Dual Agenda: New Lessons and Strategies for Old Community Building Dilemmas.” (PDF) Working Smarter in Community Development Series, 2007. (Brief 3) Meyerson, Harold. “L.A. Story.” The American Prospect, July-August 2013. Dreier, Peter, John Mollenkopf, et al. “A Metropolitics for the 21st Century.” In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the TwentyFirst Century. University Press of Kansas, 2014. ISBN: 9780700619276.
Part III: Affordable and Inclusionary Housing and Homeownership
10	Housing markets and policy: The basics	Kennedy, Margrit. “If Money Rules the World–Who Rules Money?” (PDF) Green Money, 2008. Schwartz, Alex F. Chapters 1 and 2 in Housing Policy in the United States. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 9780415836500. Marcuse, Peter. “Housing Policy and the Myth of the Benevolent State.” In Critical Perspectives on Housing. Edited by Rachel Bratt, et al. Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780877223962.
11	Homeownership: The great American dream and the rude awakening	Vale, Lawrence J. “The Ideological Origins of Affordable Homeownership Efforts.” In Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership. Edited by William M. Rohe and Harry L. Watson. Cornell University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780801473616. [Preview with Google Books] Herbert, Christopher E., Daniel T. McCue, and Rocio Sanchez-Moyano. “Is Homeownership Still an Effective Means of Building Wealth for Low-Income and Minority Households?” and “Reexamining the Social Benefits of Homeownership after the Housing Crisis.” In Homeownership Built to Last: Balancing Access, Affordability, and Risk after the Housing Crisis. Edited by Eric S. Belsky, Christopher E. Herbert, and Jennifer H. Molinsky. Brookings Institution Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780815725640. [Preview with Google Books]
12	Rental housing	[AD] Downs, Anthony. “Introduction: Why Rental Housing is the Neglected Child of American Shelter.” [AD] Belsky, Eric, and Rachel Drew. “Rental Housing Challenges and Policy Responses.” [AD] Katz, Bruce, and Margery Turner. “Rethinking U.S. Rental Policy.” Haveman, Robert. “Do Housing Vouchers Work?” (PDF) Pathways 2013, pp. 15–17.
13	Housing as a market good: Gentrification and fair housing	Hwang, Jackelyn, and Robert Sampson. “Divergent Pathways of Gentrification: Racial Inequality and the Social Order of Renewal in Chicago Neighborhoods.” American Sociological Review 79, no. 4 (2014): 726–51. Desmond, Matthew. “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty.” American Journal of Sociology 118 (2012): 88–133. Pattillo, Mary. “Housing: Commodity Versus Right.” Annual Review of Sociology 39 (2013): 509–31. Hartman, Chester. “The Case for a Right to Housing.” Shelterforce Online, no. 148 (2006). Godsil, Rachel, Olatunde Johnson, et al. “Neighborhood Gentrification.” 2014.
14	Public housing	Bristol, Katherine G. “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.” Journal of Architectural Education 44, no. 3 (1991). Vale, Lawrence J. “Myth 6: Mixed-Income Redevelopment Is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing.” In Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy. Edited by Nicholas Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale. Cornell University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780801478741. [Preview with Google Books] Lewis, Victoria Ann. Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights. Theatre Communications Group, 2005. ISBN: 9781559362504. HUD. “Choice Neighborhoods.” Program webpage. Stephens, Alexis. “Risks vs. Rewards: Inside HUD’s Favorite New Program.” Next City, 2014. Navarro, Mireya. “Public Housing in New York Reaches a Fiscal Crisis,” The New York Times, August 11, 2014.
15	Affordable housing, smart growth, and regional land use	[RP] “Connecting Smart Growth, Affordable Housing and Racial Equity.” Quigley, John M., Steven Raphael, et al. “Measuring Land Use Regulations and Their Effects in the Housing Market” (PDF - 1.2MB) with Commentaries by Richard K. Green and Stephen Malpezzi. Program on Housing and Urban Policy, 2009. Edward L. Glaeser, John M. Quigley, eds. Housing Markets and the Economy: Risk, Regulation, and Policy: Essays in Honor of Karl E. Case. Lincoln Institute of Land policy, 2009. ISBN: 9781558441842. Fisher, Lynn. “Reviewing Chapter 40B: What Gets Proposed, What Gets Approved, What Gets Appealed, and What Gets Built?” (Rappaport Institute Policy Brief, 2008)
16	Alternative housing models: Land trusts and more	[JD] Stone, Michael. “Social Housing.” Greenstein, Rosalind, and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz. “Community Land Trusts: A Solution for Permanently Affordable Housing.” Community-Wealth.org, 2012. Sazama, Gerald W. “Lessons from the History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States: A Case Study in American Affordable Housing Policy.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 59, no. 4 (2000): 573–608.
17	Mobility and the tensions between fair housing, affordable housing, and community development	Pattillo, Mary, Sherrilyn Ifill, et al. “Why Integration?” 2014. Chetty, Raj, and Nathaniel Hendren. “The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County Level Estimates.” (PDF) Read Executive Summary, 2015. Mallach, Alan. “The Mount Laurel Doctrine And The Uncertainties Of Social Policy In A Time Of Retrenchment.” 63 Rutgers Law Review 849 (2010–2011). Gordon, Adam, Kathy O’Regan, et al. “Housing Subsidies and Inclusive Communities.” 2015. “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.” (PDF) Federal Register 80, no. 136 (2015): 42348–71. (Skim pages) Allen, Michael, Angela Glover Blackwell, et al. “A New Approach to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.” 2015.
Part IV: Local Economic Development
18	Introduction to LED	Fitzgerald, and Leigh. Chapter 1 in Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. Sage Publications, 2002. ISBN: 9780761916550. [Preview with Google Books] [LB] Chapters 1 and 2.
19	Workforce development and cooperative enterprise	Siegel, and Seidman. “The Economic Development and Workforce Development Systems: A Briefing Paper.” (PDF) Prepared for the Surdna Foundation, 2009. “The Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy: Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives.” Capital Institute, 2011. LA Apollo Alliance campaign for the City of LA “Good, Green, Safe Jobs: The Los Angeles Green Retrofit and Workforce Program.” (PDF) City of LA Green Retrofit and Workforce Program fact sheet.
20	Job quality and upgrading	Paul Osterman. Chapters 4, 7, and 8 in Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone. Russell Sage Foundations, 2011, pp. 1–8, 15–17, 81–88, and 101–4. ISBN: 9780871546630. [Preview with Google Books] The Editorial Board. “Redefining the Minimum Wage,” The New York Times, November 11, 2013. Gans, Herbert J. “The Age of the Superfluous Worker,” The New York Times, November 24, 2011.
21	Entrepreneurship and business development	Explore the nation’s major Small Business Portal operated by the Small Business Administration. [LB] Chapter 9: Business Development, pp. 265–91 only. Servon, Fairlie, Rastello, et al. “The Five Gaps Facing Small and Microbusiness Owners: Evidence From New York City.” Economic Development Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2010): 126–42. Website “Living Cities Integration Initiative.”
22	Fostering and upgrading manufacturing / Regional competitiveness, clusters and neighborhood linkages	Porter. “Clusters and the New Economics of Competition.” Harvard Business Review, 1998. [EM] Chapters 2 and 7. Erikson. “Big Ideas for Small Businesses: A Regional Jobs Accelerator.” Center for American Progress Blog, 2011. [LB] Typology of Planning Approaches, pp. 126–31. Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. “The Promise of Local Clusters.” Inner City Insights 1, no. 1 (2011). “Training 100,000 Low-Income Youth to Code: A Q&A with Van Jones.” Policy Link, 2014.
23	Toward the healthy city	Geronimus, L. E., and J. Phillip Thompson. “To Denigrate, Ignore or Disrupt: Racial Inequality in Health and the Impact of a Policy-Induced Breakdown of African-American Communities.” Du Bois Review 1, no. 2 (2004): 247–79. [JC] Chapters 1 and 7. Short video clips (local work on community health): U.S. Department of Health, and Human Services. “Determinants of Health: A Framework for Reaching Healthy People 2020 Goals.” November 23, 2010. YouTube. CAFreshWorks’s channel. “FreshWorks, California’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative.” July 18, 2011. YouTube. Reinvestment Fund. “Reinvestment Fund Profile: Progress Plaza.” November 1, 2010. YouTube.
Part V: Wrapping Up
24	Course review	MIT CoLab, et al. “Development Study for the Bronx Community Development Initiative.” (PDF - 5.6MB) 2012. Community Strategy Lab. “Caring for Today, Planning for Tomorrow.” (PDF) 2014. Read Introduction and Summary, pp. 11–39. [Brooklyn Interfaith hospital reuse project].
25	Final team briefings	Briggs, and Thompson. “Deep Democracy is not Meetings that Last Forever: Community Development Next.” Investing in What Works (SF: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2012). Friedmann, John. “The Good City: In Defense of Utopian Thinking.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24, no. 2 (2000): 460–72.

SES #	TOPICS	RECOMMENDED
Part I: Foundations
1	Introductory Class: The “just city” in context	None
2	The Just City: Equitable development in comparative context	None
3	Demographic shifts and neighborhood change: Segregation, migration, and aging	[IE] Ellen, Ingrid. Continuing Isolation: Segregation in America Today, pp. 261–78. Kneebone, Elizabeth, and Alan Berube. “Cul-de-sac Poverty,” The New York Times, May 20, 2013. Sharkey, Patrick, and Jacob Faber. “Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects.” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (2014): 559–79. Woolhouse, Megan. “Poverty Persists in N. E. Suburbs,” The Boston Globe, August 24, 2014. Video “A Snapshot of Social Mobility in America.” Brookings, 2014. Audio “Advocates Struggle to Reach Growing Ranks of Suburban Poor.” National Public Radio, May 20, 2013. [IE] Baker, Dean, and Heather Boushey. “Trends in the U.S. Economy: The Evolving Role of Minorities.”
4	Income, wealth, and the political economy of inequality	Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony Atkinson, et al. “The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 3 (2013): 3–20. Berube, Alan. “The Continuing Evolution Of American Poverty and Its Implications For Community Development.” Brookings 2012. Cassidy, John. “Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts.” The New Yorker, March 2014. Autor, David, and David Dorn. “How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class,” The New York Times, August 24, 2013. Freeland, Chrystia. “The Self-Destruction of the One Percent,” The New York Times, October 13, 2012. Greenhouse, Steven. “The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs,” The New York Times, September 7, 2011. Krugman, Paul. “Inequality Is a Drag,” The New York Times, August 7, 2014. Stiglitz, Joseph. “Capitalism Needs New Rules,” The Guardian, September 2, 2014. Besbris, Max, Jacob Faber, et al. “The Effect of Neighborhood Stigma on Economic Transactions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 16 (2015): 4994–8. de Souza Briggs, Xavier. “Inventing the Next American Economy: Why Planning Matters and Where the Pitfalls Lie.” Edsall, Thomas B. “Capitalism vs. Democracy,” The New York Times, January 28, 2014.
5	Civic context: Engagement and political representation	None
6	The nature of community in 21st century America: Networks, places, social capital	Chen, Wenhong, and Barry Wellman. “Charting Digital Divides: Comparing Socioeconomic, Gender, Life Stage, and Rural-Urban Internet Access and Use in Eight Countries.” (PDF)
Part II: Community-based Organizing and Development
7	History and development: Politics and program	None
8	Institutional context	Buckley, James M. Review Essay: “From Centered to Networked: Housing America in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Urban History 38, no. 3 (2012): 603–9. Lemann, Nicholas. “The Myth of Community Development.” The New York Times Magazine, January 1994. Keyes, Langley C., Alex Schwartz, et al. “Networks and Nonprofits: Opportunities and Challenges in an Era of Federal Devolution.” (PDF) Housing Policy Debate 7, no. 2 (1996): 201–29.
9	Governance at multiple scales (neighborhood, city, region)	Choi, Laura. “An Uneven Housing Recovery: Implications for Community Development.” 2013. [JD] Kubisch, Anne C., Patricia Auspos, et al. “Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources.” [JD] Cordero-Guzman, Hector R., and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra. “Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City.” Orozco, Manuel, and Rebecca Rouse. “Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective.” 2007.
Part III: Affordable and Inclusionary Housing and Homeownership
10	Housing markets and policy: The basics	Joint Center for Housing Studies. “The State of the Nation’s Housing.” (PDF - 7.5MB) Executive Summary (2015): 1–6. National Low Income Housing Coalition. “Out of Reach Introduction and Where The Numbers Come From.” (PDF - 9.0MB) (2015): 1–15. Landis, John, and Kirk McClure. “Rethinking Federal Housing Policy.” Journal of the American Planning Association 76, no. 3 (2010): 319–48. Bipartisan Policy Center. “Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy.” (PDF - 2.9MB) 2013. Citizens Housing and Planning Association. “CHAPA Policy Summary on State Housing and Community Development Policy.” (PDF - 8.5MB) 2014. City of Boston. “Housing A Changing City: Boston 2030.” (PDF - 19.9MB) 2014. Dewan, Shaila. “Affordable Housing Draws Middle Class to Inland Cities,” The New York Times, August 3, 2014. “San Francisco and New York Affordable Housing Plans Compared,” San Francisco Public Press, August 4, 2014.
11	Homeownership: The great American dream and the rude awakening	Reid, Carolina. “To Buy or Not to Buy? Understanding Tenure Preferences and the Decision-Making Processes of Lower-Income Households.” (PDF) Harvard Joint Center on Housing, 2013. Quigley, John, and Steven Raphael. “Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn’t It More Affordable?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2004): 191–214. Herbert, Chris E., Eric S. Belsky, et al. “Critical Housing Finance Challenges for Policymakers Joint Center for Housing.” (PDF - 1.9MB) What Works Collaborative Working Paper, 2012. Engel, Kathleen C., and Patricia A. McCoy. “A Tale of Three Markets: The Law and Economics of Predator Lending.” (PDF) Achtenberg, Emily Paradise, and Peter Marcuse. “The Causes of the Housing Problem.” In Critical Perspectives in Housing. Edited by Rachel G. Bratt, et al. Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780877223962.
12	Rental housing	Glaeser, Ed, Mark Joseph, et al. “The Poor Door Debate.” 2015. Rosenblatt, P., and Stefanie DeLuca. “‘We Don’t Live Outside, We Live in Here’: Neighborhood and Residential Mobility Decisions Among Low‐Income Families.” City and Community 11, no. 3 (2012): 254–84. McClure, Kirk, Alex F. Schwartz, et al. “Housing Choice Voucher Location Patterns a Decade Later.” Housing Policy Debate 25, no. 2 (2015): 215–33. von Hoffman, Alexander. “Profiles in Preservation: New Franklin Apartments in Boston, Massachusetts.” Joint Center of Housing Studies, 2014. Short videos (3–4 minutes each) on affordable rental supply, focused on preservation as a strategy: Macfound. “David Seabrook on Affordable Housing.” March 20, 2008. Youtube. (Community Preservation and Development Corporation) ———. “Seizing the Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing (Part 1).” September 9, 2008. Youtube. (Logan Square in Chicago). ———. “Seizing the Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing (Part 2).” September 9, 2008. Youtube. (Kankakee, Outside Chicago).
13	Housing as a market good: Gentrification and fair housing	Ellen, Ingrid Gould, and Kathy O’Regan. “How Low Income Neighborhoods Change: Entry, Exit, and Enhancement.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, no. 2 (2011): 89–97. Sard, Barbara, Phil Tegeler, et al. “Neighborhoods, Opportunities, and the Housing Choice Voucher Program.” 2015. Fennell, Lee. Chapter 1 in The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines. Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780300122442.
14	Public housing	Vale, Lawrence J. “Standardizing Public Housing.” In Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. Edited by Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry Szold. Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 9780415948753. [Preview with Google Books] Vale, Lawrence J., and Yonah Freemark. From “Public Housing to Public-Private Housing.” Journal of the American Planning Association 78, no. 4 (2012): 379–402. Popkin, Susan, et al. “A Decade of HOPE VI: Research Findings and Policy Challenges.” (PDF) The Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, 2004. (Executive Summary only.) McCormick, Naomi, Mark Joseph, et al. “The New Stigma of Relocated Public Housing Residents: Challenges to Social Identity in Mixed-Income Developments.” City and Community 11, no. 3 (2012): 285–308. Joseph, Mark L., Robert J. Chaskin, et al. “The Theoretical Basis for Addressing Poverty Through Mixed-Income Development.” Urban Affairs Review 42, no. 3 (2007): 369–409. Video holstenchicago. “60 minutes North Town Village - Cabrini Green.” August 6, 2012. YouTube.
15	Affordable housing, smart growth, and regional land use	CHP, and TransForm. “Cap and Trade Proceeds for Affordable Housing.” “Environmental Justice and Housing Worlds Seek Meeting of Minds on defining Disadvantage” California Planning & Development Report, 2014. Transform. “Cap and Trade Funding.” CNT. “Housing and Transportation Cost Calculator.” “Can Light Rail Be an Engine of Opportunity? The Twin Cities Story.” Policy Link, 2014. Krugman, Paul. “Wrong Way Nation,” The New York Times, August 24, 2014. Benfield, Kaid. “Let’s Not Pronounce Sprawl Dead Just Yet,” The Huffington Post, October 1, 2014.
16	Alternative housing models: Land trusts and more	Tsemberis, Sam. 2010. “Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Promoting Recovery, and Reducing Costs.” In How to House the Homeless. Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O’Flaherty. Russell Sage Foundation, 2010, pp. 37–56. ISBN: 9780871544544. McCulloch, Heather. “Sharing the Wealth: Resident Ownership Mechanisms.” PolicyLink, 2001. Thaden, Emily. “Stable Home Ownership in a Turbulent Economy: Delinquencies and Foreclosures Remain Low in Community Land Trusts.” Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2011. Curtin, Julie Farrell, and Lance Bocarsly. “CLTs: A Growing Trend in Affordable Home Ownership.” Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 17, no. 4 (2008): 367–94. Zekas, Valerie. “SF Community Land Trust Stops Ellis Act Eviction.” BeyondChron, 2014. Video TEDx Talks. “Housing First: Sam Tsemberis at TEDx.” May 4, 2012. YouTube.
17	Mobility and the tensions between fair housing, affordable housing, and community development	Badger, Emily. “Hysteria and Racist Screeds Over HUD Plans to Map Neighborhood Diversity.” The Atlantic Cities Blog, 2013. The New York Times Editorial Board. “Westchester’s Tortured Road,” The New York Times, June 12, 2015. The Editorial Board. “Fair Housing Collision in Westchester,” The New York Times, May 1, 2014. Turner, Margery, et al. “Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012.” (PDF - 2.4MB) Executive Summary, 2013. “HUD AFFH Assessment Tool Option A.” “Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project Inc.” Harvard Law Review, 135 S. Ct. 2507 (2015). [RP] Goetz, Chapple, and Lukerman. “The Rise and Fall of Fair Share Housing: Lessons from the Twin Cities.” Ludwig, Jens, et al. “Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults.” Science 337, no. 6101 (2012): 1505–10. Sampson, Robert. “Moving and the Neighborhood Glass Ceiling.” Science 337, no. 6101 (2012) 1464–5. “Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012 (PDF - 4.3MB).” U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2013. Rogers, Christy, Jason Reece, et al. “Fair Credit and Fair Housing in the Wake of the Subprime Lending and Foreclosure Crisis: Findings from the Kirwan Institute Initiative.” (PDF - 1.4MB) Video The Leadership Conference. “Accents (Fair Housing PSA).” March 3, 2008. Youtube. Rothstein, Richard. “Racial Segregation Continues, and Even Intensifies.” February 3, 2012. Audio House Rules. This American Life. November 22, 2013.
Part IV: Local Economic Development
18	Introduction to LED	None
19	Workforce development and cooperative enterprise	None
20	Job quality and upgrading	The Apollo Alliance and Green for All with Center for American Progress and Center on Wisonsin Strategy. “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities.” (PDF)
21	Entrepreneurship and business development	None
22	Fostering and upgrading manufacturing / Regional competitiveness, clusters and neighborhood linkages	Delgado, Porter, and Stern. “Clusters, Convergence and Economic Performance.” Harvard Business School, 2012. (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness) Scola, Nancy. “Tech and the City: New York’s Latest Mega-Project is a Campus for Home - Growing Technologists, but Can a City Really Engineer and Innovation Economy?” Forefront 1, no. 21 (2012). Christopherson, and Clark. Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy. Routledge, 2007, pp. 3–13, 108–17, and 137–49. ISBN: 9780415357432. Held. “Clusters as an Economic Development Tool: Beyond the Pitfalls.” Economic Development Quarterly 10, no. 3 (1996): 249–61. Pastor, et al. Regions that Work: How Cities and Suburbs can Grow Together. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780816633401. [LB] Chapter 7: Local Economic Development Strategy. X. Briggs. “The Civics of Economic Restructuring,” “The Hyper-Organized Region: Leading the Next ‘New Economy’ in Pittsburgh,” and “Progressive Regionalism and Entrepreneurial Government: Democratization and Competitive Restructuring in the Greater ABC, Brazil.” Chapters 6, 7, and 8 in Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe. MIT Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780262026413. [Preview with Google Books] Weissbourd, and Muro. “Metropolitan Business Plans: A New Approach to Economic Growth.” Brookings, 2011. Clark, et al. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780199250837. Does Manufacturing Matter? Helper, Krueger, and Wial. “Why Does Manufacturing Matter? Which Manufacturing Matters? A Policy Framework.” (PDF - 1.9MB) The Brookings Institution, 2012. Do We Need a Manufacturing Policy? Romer. “Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?,” The New York Times, February 4, 2012. Rebuttal, Prestowitz. “Why Don’t Economists Get It On Manufacturing?” Foreign Policy, February 2012. What skills are needed? Davidson. “Skills Don’t Pay the Bills,” The New York Times, November 20, 2012. “Making it in America.” The Atlantic, January-February 2012. What does this have to do with American Competitiveness? Pisano, and Shih. “Restoring American Competitiveness.” Harvard Business Review, 2009. Duhigg. “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work,” The New York Times, January 21, 2012. Herrigel, Gary. “Manufacturing Possibilities: Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the U.S., Germany and Japan.” Journal of Economic Geography 11, no. 4 (2011): 757–9. Dertouzos, Michael, et al. “Introduction.” In Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge. MIT Press, 1989, pp. 1–22. ISBN: 9780262041003. Rius. Marx for Beginners. Two Continents Publication Group, 1976. ISBN: 9780846702702. Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780807848296. Graeber, David. Chapter 1 in Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House, 2011. ISBN: 9781933633862. Cortight, Joseph. “Making Sense of Clusters: Regional Competitiveness and Economic Development.” (PDF) The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, 2006. “Economic Prosperity Strategy.” (PDF - 6.9MB) 2014. “OpportunityNewark: Jobs and Community Development for the 21st Century.” (PDF - 3.5MB) Executive Summary. Porter, Michael E. “Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy.” (PDF - 1.2MB) European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters, 2008.
23	Toward the healthy city	Arcaya, Mariana, and Xavier de Souza Briggs. “Despite Obstacles, Considerable Potential Exists for More Robust Federal Policy on Community Development and Health.” Health Affairs 30, no. 11 (2011): 2064–71 and 2064–68 only. [JC] Corburn, Jason. Chapter 2. Fullilove, Mindy. Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It. One World / Ballantine, 2005. ISBN: 9780345454232. Northridge, et al. “Reinventing Health and Sustainable Communities: Reconnecting Public Health and Urban Planning.” In Social Inequality and Public Health. Edited by Salvatore J. Babones. Policy Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781847423207. [Preview with Google Books] Vitiello, Domenic, and Catherine Brinkley. “The Hidden History of Food System Planning.” Journal of Planning History 13, no. 2 (2014): 91–112. Boes, Kevin. “Connecting Housing and Health Care Through Community Development.” (PDF) Community Investments 25, no. 1 (2013). “California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool, Version 2.0.” (PDF - 7.2MB) Guidance and Screening Tool, 2014. “Completed HIA Projects.” Human Impact Partners.
Part V: Wrapping Up
24	Course review	None
25	Final team briefings	None

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TOPICS

RECOMMENDED

Part I: Foundations

Introductory Class: The “just city” in context

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The Just City: Equitable development in comparative context

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Demographic shifts and neighborhood change: Segregation, migration, and aging

[IE] Ellen, Ingrid. Continuing Isolation: Segregation in America Today, pp. 261–78.

Kneebone, Elizabeth, and Alan Berube. “Cul-de-sac Poverty,” The New York Times, May 20, 2013.

Sharkey, Patrick, and Jacob Faber. “Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects.” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (2014): 559–79.

Woolhouse, Megan. “Poverty Persists in N. E. Suburbs,” The Boston Globe, August 24, 2014.

Video

“A Snapshot of Social Mobility in America.” Brookings, 2014.

Audio

“Advocates Struggle to Reach Growing Ranks of Suburban Poor.” National Public Radio, May 20, 2013.

[IE] Baker, Dean, and Heather Boushey. “Trends in the U.S. Economy: The Evolving Role of Minorities.”

Income, wealth, and the political economy of inequality

Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony Atkinson, et al. “The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 3 (2013): 3–20.

Berube, Alan. “The Continuing Evolution Of American Poverty and Its Implications For Community Development.” Brookings 2012.

Cassidy, John. “Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts.” The New Yorker, March 2014.

Autor, David, and David Dorn. “How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class,” The New York Times, August 24, 2013.

Freeland, Chrystia. “The Self-Destruction of the One Percent,” The New York Times, October 13, 2012.

Greenhouse, Steven. “The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs,” The New York Times, September 7, 2011.

Krugman, Paul. “Inequality Is a Drag,” The New York Times, August 7, 2014.

Stiglitz, Joseph. “Capitalism Needs New Rules,” The Guardian, September 2, 2014.

Besbris, Max, Jacob Faber, et al. “The Effect of Neighborhood Stigma on Economic Transactions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 16 (2015): 4994–8.

de Souza Briggs, Xavier. “Inventing the Next American Economy: Why Planning Matters and Where the Pitfalls Lie.”

Edsall, Thomas B. “Capitalism vs. Democracy,” The New York Times, January 28, 2014.

Civic context: Engagement and political representation

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The nature of community in 21st century America: Networks, places, social capital

Chen, Wenhong, and Barry Wellman. “Charting Digital Divides: Comparing Socioeconomic, Gender, Life Stage, and Rural-Urban Internet Access and Use in Eight Countries.” (PDF)

Part II: Community-based Organizing and Development

History and development: Politics and program

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Institutional context

Buckley, James M. Review Essay: “From Centered to Networked: Housing America in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Urban History 38, no. 3 (2012): 603–9.

Lemann, Nicholas. “The Myth of Community Development.” The New York Times Magazine, January 1994.

Keyes, Langley C., Alex Schwartz, et al. “Networks and Nonprofits: Opportunities and Challenges in an Era of Federal Devolution.” (PDF) Housing Policy Debate 7, no. 2 (1996): 201–29.

Governance at multiple scales (neighborhood, city, region)

Choi, Laura. “An Uneven Housing Recovery: Implications for Community Development.” 2013.

[JD] Kubisch, Anne C., Patricia Auspos, et al. “Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources.”

[JD] Cordero-Guzman, Hector R., and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra. “Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City.”

Orozco, Manuel, and Rebecca Rouse. “Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective.” 2007.

Part III: Affordable and Inclusionary Housing and Homeownership

Housing markets and policy: The basics

Joint Center for Housing Studies. “The State of the Nation’s Housing.” (PDF - 7.5MB) Executive Summary (2015): 1–6.

National Low Income Housing Coalition. “Out of Reach Introduction and Where The Numbers Come From.” (PDF - 9.0MB) (2015): 1–15.

Landis, John, and Kirk McClure. “Rethinking Federal Housing Policy.” Journal of the American Planning Association 76, no. 3 (2010): 319–48.

Bipartisan Policy Center. “Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy.” (PDF - 2.9MB) 2013.

Citizens Housing and Planning Association. “CHAPA Policy Summary on State Housing and Community Development Policy.” (PDF - 8.5MB) 2014.

City of Boston. “Housing A Changing City: Boston 2030.” (PDF - 19.9MB) 2014.

Dewan, Shaila. “Affordable Housing Draws Middle Class to Inland Cities,” The New York Times, August 3, 2014.

“San Francisco and New York Affordable Housing Plans Compared,” San Francisco Public Press, August 4, 2014.

Homeownership: The great American dream and the rude awakening

Reid, Carolina. “To Buy or Not to Buy? Understanding Tenure Preferences and the Decision-Making Processes of Lower-Income Households.” (PDF) Harvard Joint Center on Housing, 2013.

Quigley, John, and Steven Raphael. “Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn’t It More Affordable?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2004): 191–214.

Herbert, Chris E., Eric S. Belsky, et al. “Critical Housing Finance Challenges for Policymakers Joint Center for Housing.” (PDF - 1.9MB) What Works Collaborative Working Paper, 2012.

Engel, Kathleen C., and Patricia A. McCoy. “A Tale of Three Markets: The Law and Economics of Predator Lending.” (PDF)

Achtenberg, Emily Paradise, and Peter Marcuse. “The Causes of the Housing Problem.” In Critical Perspectives in Housing. Edited by Rachel G. Bratt, et al. Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780877223962.

Rental housing

Glaeser, Ed, Mark Joseph, et al. “The Poor Door Debate.” 2015.

Rosenblatt, P., and Stefanie DeLuca. “‘We Don’t Live Outside, We Live in Here’: Neighborhood and Residential Mobility Decisions Among Low‐Income Families.” City and Community 11, no. 3 (2012): 254–84.

McClure, Kirk, Alex F. Schwartz, et al. “Housing Choice Voucher Location Patterns a Decade Later.” Housing Policy Debate 25, no. 2 (2015): 215–33.

von Hoffman, Alexander. “Profiles in Preservation: New Franklin Apartments in Boston, Massachusetts.” Joint Center of Housing Studies, 2014.

Short videos (3–4 minutes each) on affordable rental supply, focused on preservation as a strategy:

Macfound. “David Seabrook on Affordable Housing.” March 20, 2008. Youtube. (Community Preservation and Development Corporation)
———. “Seizing the Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing (Part 1).” September 9, 2008. Youtube. (Logan Square in Chicago).
———. “Seizing the Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing (Part 2).” September 9, 2008. Youtube. (Kankakee, Outside Chicago).

Housing as a market good: Gentrification and fair housing

Ellen, Ingrid Gould, and Kathy O’Regan. “How Low Income Neighborhoods Change: Entry, Exit, and Enhancement.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, no. 2 (2011): 89–97.

Sard, Barbara, Phil Tegeler, et al. “Neighborhoods, Opportunities, and the Housing Choice Voucher Program.” 2015.

Fennell, Lee. Chapter 1 in The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines. Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780300122442.

Public housing

Vale, Lawrence J. “Standardizing Public Housing.” In Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. Edited by Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry Szold. Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 9780415948753. [Preview with Google Books]

Vale, Lawrence J., and Yonah Freemark. From “Public Housing to Public-Private Housing.” Journal of the American Planning Association 78, no. 4 (2012): 379–402.

Popkin, Susan, et al. “A Decade of HOPE VI: Research Findings and Policy Challenges.” (PDF) The Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, 2004. (Executive Summary only.)

McCormick, Naomi, Mark Joseph, et al. “The New Stigma of Relocated Public Housing Residents: Challenges to Social Identity in Mixed-Income Developments.” City and Community 11, no. 3 (2012): 285–308.

Joseph, Mark L., Robert J. Chaskin, et al. “The Theoretical Basis for Addressing Poverty Through Mixed-Income Development.” Urban Affairs Review 42, no. 3 (2007): 369–409.

Video

holstenchicago. “60 minutes North Town Village - Cabrini Green.” August 6, 2012. YouTube.

Affordable housing, smart growth, and regional land use

CHP, and TransForm. “Cap and Trade Proceeds for Affordable Housing.”

“Environmental Justice and Housing Worlds Seek Meeting of Minds on defining Disadvantage” California Planning & Development Report, 2014.

Transform. “Cap and Trade Funding.”

CNT. “Housing and Transportation Cost Calculator.”

“Can Light Rail Be an Engine of Opportunity? The Twin Cities Story.” Policy Link, 2014.

Krugman, Paul. “Wrong Way Nation,” The New York Times, August 24, 2014.

Benfield, Kaid. “Let’s Not Pronounce Sprawl Dead Just Yet,” The Huffington Post, October 1, 2014.

Alternative housing models: Land trusts and more

Tsemberis, Sam. 2010. “Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Promoting Recovery, and Reducing Costs.” In How to House the Homeless. Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O’Flaherty. Russell Sage Foundation, 2010, pp. 37–56. ISBN: 9780871544544.

McCulloch, Heather. “Sharing the Wealth: Resident Ownership Mechanisms.” PolicyLink, 2001.

Thaden, Emily. “Stable Home Ownership in a Turbulent Economy: Delinquencies and Foreclosures Remain Low in Community Land Trusts.” Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2011.

Curtin, Julie Farrell, and Lance Bocarsly. “CLTs: A Growing Trend in Affordable Home Ownership.” Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 17, no. 4 (2008): 367–94.

Zekas, Valerie. “SF Community Land Trust Stops Ellis Act Eviction.” BeyondChron, 2014.

Video

TEDx Talks. “Housing First: Sam Tsemberis at TEDx.” May 4, 2012. YouTube.

Mobility and the tensions between fair housing, affordable housing, and community development

Badger, Emily. “Hysteria and Racist Screeds Over HUD Plans to Map Neighborhood Diversity.” The Atlantic Cities Blog, 2013.

The New York Times Editorial Board. “Westchester’s Tortured Road,” The New York Times, June 12, 2015.

The Editorial Board. “Fair Housing Collision in Westchester,” The New York Times, May 1, 2014.

Turner, Margery, et al. “Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012.” (PDF - 2.4MB) Executive Summary, 2013.

“HUD AFFH Assessment Tool Option A.”

“Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project Inc.” Harvard Law Review, 135 S. Ct. 2507 (2015).

[RP] Goetz, Chapple, and Lukerman. “The Rise and Fall of Fair Share Housing: Lessons from the Twin Cities.”

Ludwig, Jens, et al. “Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults.” Science 337, no. 6101 (2012): 1505–10.

Sampson, Robert. “Moving and the Neighborhood Glass Ceiling.” Science 337, no. 6101 (2012) 1464–5.

“Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012 (PDF - 4.3MB).” U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2013.

Rogers, Christy, Jason Reece, et al. “Fair Credit and Fair Housing in the Wake of the Subprime Lending and Foreclosure Crisis: Findings from the Kirwan Institute Initiative.” (PDF - 1.4MB)

Video

The Leadership Conference. “Accents (Fair Housing PSA).” March 3, 2008. Youtube.

Rothstein, Richard. “Racial Segregation Continues, and Even Intensifies.” February 3, 2012.

Audio

House Rules. This American Life. November 22, 2013.

Part IV: Local Economic Development

Introduction to LED

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Workforce development and cooperative enterprise

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Job quality and upgrading

The Apollo Alliance and Green for All with Center for American Progress and Center on Wisonsin Strategy. “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities.” (PDF)

Entrepreneurship and business development

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Fostering and upgrading manufacturing / Regional competitiveness, clusters and neighborhood linkages

Delgado, Porter, and Stern. “Clusters, Convergence and Economic Performance.” Harvard Business School, 2012. (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness)

Scola, Nancy. “Tech and the City: New York’s Latest Mega-Project is a Campus for Home - Growing Technologists, but Can a City Really Engineer and Innovation Economy?” Forefront 1, no. 21 (2012).

Christopherson, and Clark. Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy. Routledge, 2007, pp. 3–13, 108–17, and 137–49. ISBN: 9780415357432.

Held. “Clusters as an Economic Development Tool: Beyond the Pitfalls.” Economic Development Quarterly 10, no. 3 (1996): 249–61.

Pastor, et al. Regions that Work: How Cities and Suburbs can Grow Together. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780816633401.

[LB] Chapter 7: Local Economic Development Strategy.

X. Briggs. “The Civics of Economic Restructuring,” “The Hyper-Organized Region: Leading the Next ‘New Economy’ in Pittsburgh,” and “Progressive Regionalism and Entrepreneurial Government: Democratization and Competitive Restructuring in the Greater ABC, Brazil.” Chapters 6, 7, and 8 in Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe. MIT Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780262026413. [Preview with Google Books]

Weissbourd, and Muro. “Metropolitan Business Plans: A New Approach to Economic Growth.” Brookings, 2011.

Clark, et al. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780199250837.

Does Manufacturing Matter?
Helper, Krueger, and Wial. “Why Does Manufacturing Matter? Which Manufacturing Matters? A Policy Framework.” (PDF - 1.9MB) The Brookings Institution, 2012.

Do We Need a Manufacturing Policy?
Romer. “Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?,” The New York Times, February 4, 2012.

Rebuttal, Prestowitz. “Why Don’t Economists Get It On Manufacturing?” Foreign Policy, February 2012.

What skills are needed?
Davidson. “Skills Don’t Pay the Bills,” The New York Times, November 20, 2012.

“Making it in America.” The Atlantic, January-February 2012.

What does this have to do with American Competitiveness?
Pisano, and Shih. “Restoring American Competitiveness.” Harvard Business Review, 2009.

Duhigg. “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work,” The New York Times, January 21, 2012.

Herrigel, Gary. “Manufacturing Possibilities: Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the U.S., Germany and Japan.” Journal of Economic Geography 11, no. 4 (2011): 757–9.

Dertouzos, Michael, et al. “Introduction.” In Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge. MIT Press, 1989, pp. 1–22. ISBN: 9780262041003.

Rius. Marx for Beginners. Two Continents Publication Group, 1976. ISBN: 9780846702702.

Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780807848296.

Graeber, David. Chapter 1 in Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House, 2011. ISBN: 9781933633862.

Cortight, Joseph. “Making Sense of Clusters: Regional Competitiveness and Economic Development.” (PDF) The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, 2006.

“Economic Prosperity Strategy.” (PDF - 6.9MB) 2014.

“OpportunityNewark: Jobs and Community Development for the 21st Century.” (PDF - 3.5MB) Executive Summary.

Porter, Michael E. “Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy.” (PDF - 1.2MB) European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters, 2008.

Toward the healthy city

Arcaya, Mariana, and Xavier de Souza Briggs. “Despite Obstacles, Considerable Potential Exists for More Robust Federal Policy on Community Development and Health.” Health Affairs 30, no. 11 (2011): 2064–71 and 2064–68 only.

[JC] Corburn, Jason. Chapter 2.

Fullilove, Mindy. Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It. One World / Ballantine, 2005. ISBN: 9780345454232.

Northridge, et al. “Reinventing Health and Sustainable Communities: Reconnecting Public Health and Urban Planning.” In Social Inequality and Public Health. Edited by Salvatore J. Babones. Policy Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781847423207. [Preview with Google Books]

Vitiello, Domenic, and Catherine Brinkley. “The Hidden History of Food System Planning.” Journal of Planning History 13, no. 2 (2014): 91–112.

Boes, Kevin. “Connecting Housing and Health Care Through Community Development.” (PDF) Community Investments 25, no. 1 (2013).

“California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool, Version 2.0.” (PDF - 7.2MB) Guidance and Screening Tool, 2014.

“Completed HIA Projects.” Human Impact Partners.

Part V: Wrapping Up

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