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Community Development Innovation Review

The Community Development Innovation Review focuses on bridging the gap between theory and practice, from as many viewpoints as possible. The goal of this journal is to promote cross-sector dialogue around a range of emerging issues and related investments that advance economic resilience and mobility for low- and moderate-income communities.

  • Homeownership and the Stability of Middle Neighborhoods

    Alan Mallach, Center for Community Progress

    What role does homeownership play in the vitality of middle neighborhoods in legacy cities?

  • Is the Urban Middle Neighborhood an Endangered Species? Multiple Challenges and Difficult Answers

    Alan Mallach, Center for Community Progress

    Looks directly at the challenges facing middle neighborhoods in legacy cities.

  • Demographics and Characteristics of Middle Neighborhoods in Select Legacy Cities

    Ira Goldstein, William Schrecker, and Jacob L. Rosch, The Reinvestment Fund

    Offers a data-based description of the middle neighborhoods of several legacy cities: Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis.

  • The Case for Intervention in Middle Neighborhoods

    George Galster, Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

    Establishes a rationale for why scholars and policymakers should seriously consider middle neighborhoods as a locus of potential policy innovation and intervention.

  • The Middle Neighborhood Movement, 1970-2000

    Joe McNeely, Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc., and Paul C. Brophy, Brophy & Reilly, LLC

    Where did the energy to revitalize middle neighborhoods come from, where did it go, and what was left behind?

  • Preface

    Ian Galloway, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

  • Creative Placemaking

    Artists and cultural institutions have an important role to play in neighborhood social and economic vitality. As community developers consider how best to reimagine space they can and should look to the arts to help create place. This work, otherwise known as “creative placemaking,” is beginning to take shape across the country. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pleased to dedicate Volume 10, Issue 2 of the Community Development Investment Review to this emerging work.

  • The Meaning of the Creative Economy in Los Angeles

    Samuel Hoi, Maryland Institute College of Art

    Highlights Los Angeles as a striking model of the creative economy and concentration of creative resources.

  • Contributing to Quality of Life

    Marilyn Higgins, Syracuse University; Bruce Farnsworth, Light Brigade; Joseph Kunkel, Santo Domingo Tribal Housing Authority; Prema Gupta, University City District

    Profiles four creative placemaking projects that contributed to quality of life: SALT District; Follow the Light; Santo Domingo Heritage Trail Arts Project; and The Porch at 30th Street Station.

  • Building Resiliency

    Nancy Barton, New York University; Nicole Crutchfield, The Fargo Project; Lisa Hoffman, McColl Center for Art + Innovation; Laetitia Wolff, Design/Relief

    Profiles four creative placemaking projects that built resiliency: Prattsville Center and Artist Residency; World Garden Commons; Art and Ecology Campus at Brightwalk; and Design/Relief.