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Gentrification may be the issue of greatest concern in the field of community development in 2003. It certainly is the least understood yet most invoked subject whenever the work of neighborhood revitalization comes up. In this piece, published in The Next American City, czb explores the way neighborhoods compete for investments, and provides some of the implications for community developers to think about as they take on the challenge of making cities livable.

We will also provide leads on research, publications, relevant journalism, and other sources of information on subjects related to the work of creating healthy neighborhoods that may be useful to visitors.

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Useful sources of information available here:

Great Neighborhoods; Great City
Revitalizing Baltimore Through the
Healthy Neighborhoods Approach
by David Boehlke for the
Goldseker Foundation

A cutting—edge publication on the hard work of growing demand in middle market neighborhoods in older, American cities.

Useful sources of information available on the web:

	knowledgeplex
	Joint Center for Housing Studies
	Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
	Millennial Housing Commision
	Public Policy Institute of California
	Metropolitan Institute of Virginia at Virginia Tech
	Leadership Project at Kennedy School of Government

From the sidebar:

	PA (Progressive Architecture) had it right in 1988 when it declared the importance of avoiding our past failures. The question for the design and planning field today, in 2003, when it is once again fashionable to plan big projects in the Modernist tradition with too little regard for the wisdom of Jane Jacobs, is how to solve real problems without repeating past mistakes.

	The Myth of Community Development by Nicholas Lemann, January 1994. Due to copyright restrictions imposed by the New York Times, we are unable to make the article available to the public. If you would like to know how to obtain a copy of this article, please email us at cbuki@czb.org.

	"Next American City" is a breath of fresh air. When people who know better think Smart Growth is the next Jerusalem though plainly our problems derive from race and class antagonisms in a market economy, and when critics of Smart Growth deride it without grasping how valuable a tool it can be, magazines like the Next American City show that dialogue is possible. On subjects like gentrification, urbanism and religion, modern transportation, globalism, and growth management, this is a journal with something to say.

charles buki
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