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Paul Davidoff book of the year award from the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, 1990 ""No planner, I predict, will be able to consider his education complete during the next decade or so who has not grappled vicariously with the dilemmas Krumholz faced."" --Alan A. Altshuler, from the ForewordFrom 1969 to 1979, Cleveland's city planning staff under Norman Krumholz's leadership conducted a unique experiment in equity oriented planning. Fighting to defend the public welfare while also assisting the city's poorest citizens, these planners combined professional competence and politi

Reviews efforts in US cities to implement redistributive urban planning & local economic development policies. Three possibilities for improving broader equity outcomes in future local economic development are discussed: (1) shift from real estate speculation to public investment, eg, invest in a city's deteriorating capital plant & in nurturing a better-educated workforce; (2) build on existing strengths; ie, instead of giving tax abatements & other public inducements to all large developers without discrimination, cities must develop a market niche where they have natural advantages; & (3) address redistributive issues; eg, when economic development provides outcomes in which some groups always win & other groups always lose, where some are asked to bear the property tax burden & others evade the burden, the legitimacy of government policy should be questioned. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

Lessons from an experiment in equity planning.

What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fairness and equal access squarely in the center of planning research and practice. Editors Norman Krumholz and Kathryn Wertheim Hexter provide essential resources for city leaders and planners, as well as for students and others, interested in shaping the built environment for a more just world. Advancing Equity Planning Now remind us that equity has always been an integral consideration in the planning profession. The historic roots of that ethical commitment go back more than a century. Yet a trend of growing inequality in America, as well as other recent socio-economic changes that divide the wealthiest from the middle and working classes, challenge the notion that a rising economic tide lifts all boats. When planning becomes mere place-making for elites, urban and regional planners need to return to the fundamentals of their profession. Although they have not always done so, planners are well-positioned to advocate for greater equity in public policies that address the multiple objectives of urban planning including housing, transportation, economic development, and the removal of noxious land uses in neighborhoods. Thanks to generous funding from Cleveland State University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Lessons from Cleveland -- Part 1. Cleveland: Composite American Urbanism -- Introduction -- Cleveland: Journey to Maturity -- Part 2. History: Growth to Decline -- Introduction -- Cleveland: The Making and Remaking of an American City, 1796-1993 -- Part 3. Economy: Roots to Restructuring -- Introduction -- The Cleveland Economy: A Case Study of Economic Restructuring -- Part 4. Politics: Conflict and Reform -- Introduction -- A Ten Years' War -- Urban Populism, Fiscal Crisis, and the New Political Economy -- Black Civil Rights -- Postscript -- Part 5. Governance: Public and Private -- Introduction -- The Ninety-Year War Over Public Power in Cleveland -- How Business Bosses Saved a Sick City -- Who Governs: The Corporate Hand -- Part 6. Neighborhoods: City and Suburbs -- Introduction -- Between Spires and Stacks: The People and Neighborhoods of Cleveland -- The Impact of Poverty on Cleveland Neighborhoods -- Politics and the Development of Public Housing -- Housing Dynamics of the Cleveland Area, 1950-2000 -- Part 7. Race and Discrimination -- Introduction -- Black Cleveland and the Central-Woodland Community, 1865-1930 -- Cleveland: The Evolution of Black Political Power -- Open Housing in Metropolitan Cleveland -- Part 8. Urban Redevelopment: Policy, Planning, and Prospects -- Introduction -- Government, Equity, Redistribution, and the Practice of Urban Planning -- Cleveland Tomorrow: A Practicing Model of New Roles and Processes for Corporate Leadership in Cities -- Postpopulist Public-Private Partnerships -- Housing: New Lessons, New Models -- Transforming Cleveland: Housing, Population, Neighborhoods, and the Future -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.

During the 1970s, Cleveland's capital improvement plan (CIP) was scorned as a bad joke, and the city's roads, bridges, and public buildings fell into disrepair. The city's default on its fiscal obligation in 1978 seemed to cap the city's infrastructure problem; there was no comprehensive strategy for capital spending and in a bankrupt city, no money to spend in any event. Yet, during the 1980s, with support from the administration, the business community, and the innovations of a small group of dedicated urban planners, the CIP was restructured and hundreds of millions were systematically invested in public infrastructure. By the 1990s, most of the innovative changes of the 1980s seemed to be institutionalized, but there were ominous clouds on the horizon.