The Pei Plan was an urban redevelopment initiative designed for downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the 1960s and 1970s.
In the book, Dr. Appiah examines the city of Chicago's 1999 "Plan for Transformation," a redevelopment initiative that aims to rebuild or construct 25,000 public housing units.
A package including tax and capital investment incentives, factory-site redevelopment initiatives and an advertising campaign spun around pride and domestic security concerns could breathe life into this idea.
"When the local leadership is strong and you have a vision in local leadership, that's when good things happen," said Jane M. Kenny, the commissioner of the State Department of Community Affairs, who oversees the state's urban redevelopment initiatives.
"Not enough clarified redevelopment and regeneration initiatives could compromise culture and cultural heritage.
Since that time Barcelona has entered what might be called another golden age: playing host to the 1992 Olympics was a spur to extensive urban redevelopment, local pride and initiative; the city has become the design, fashion and leisure center of the western Mediterranean, and Catalan culture flourishes.
They have worked together to promote smart-growth measures like Vermont's Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, Ohio's new brownfields redevelopment and open-space initiative, and a Massachusetts community preservation law that enables local governments to raise money to pay for affordable housing, land conservation and historic preservation.
William Nangle, executive editor of The Northwest Indiana Times, said he did not see a conflict of interest in a news media company's playing a lead role in a development initiative by orchestrating redevelopment coverage and seeking investors.
Among those expected to stay are Amanda M. Burden, the influential director of the New York City Planning Department, and Robert Steel, the deputy mayor for economic development, who are leading several of Mr. Bloomberg's more significant third-term initiatives, including the redevelopment of office buildings around Grand Central Terminal.
The downtown growth was sparked by one of Bradley's first mayoral policy initiatives, a huge redevelopment plan that he steered through the City Council in 1974.
The extant literature on this redevelopment focuses primarily on top-down initiatives launched by urban governments, paying little attention to villages' responses as actual landholders.
