For decades, planners have been taught that the way to revitalize a community is to attract employers. With that larger tax base, they can then work on enhancing the local assets and quality of life: renewing [...]

Redevelopers have many tools for helping them select the right property in a community, and for designing the best use of that property. What they don't have is a tool to help them select the right community [...]

Let's say you represent a large, institutional real estate investor in today's economic climate. What's the main indicator you look for when choosing communities for your latest project? The usual answer [...]

Hi everybody, There are a couple of articles we think you'll really enjoy. First is Storm Cunningham on reWealth, Renewal and Restoration by Mallika Naguran — this is a great article about ReNew [...]

Most community revitalization plans fail (often miserably). Most redevelopment projects don’t deliver anywhere near their revitalizing potential to the community, even though they might pay off nicely [...]

Planning should ideally be the most holistic of disciplines, addressing the needs of human culture, wildlife, economics, and a plethora of other agendas in a systematic manner that has a rigorous theoretical [...]

In the past three issues of ReNew Canada, this column has provided readers sneak peeks into content from my new book, Rewealth! (McGraw-Hill, April 2008). This column will cap that four-part series [...]