Community Renewal through Municipal Investment

<p> Local officials are making investment decisions to enhance the quality of life in their communities and to improve economic development conditions. These new programs are not municipal give-aways or as some call them corporate welfare programs but efforts to invest wisely in downtown areas and neighborhoods with the goal of revitalizing them with the hope that business and commerce will follow.</p><p> This work presents case studies from Atlanta Baltimore Baton Rouge Berkeley Boulder Cambridge Charleston Chattanooga Chesterfield County Chicago Cleveland Denver DuPont Grand Forks Hampton Hartford Hayward Houston Kansas City Lake Worth Little Rock Madison Minneapolis Nashville New Bedford Newark Oakland Orlando Petuluma Portland Saint Paul Santa Monica Seattle Toronto and Washington D.C. The case study topics include streetscapes public plazas museums libraries cultural parks walkways and greenways major infrastructure improvements transit and transportation enhancements and other works.</p>