Resources

Key publications and web resources exploring the unique challenges and opportunities facing legacy cities.

Greenventory 2.0: Sustainability Lessons from Small and Midsize Legacy Cities

Joseph Schilling and Gabriella Velasco, 2020
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Regenerating America’s Legacy Cities

Alan Mallach and Lavea Brachman, 2013
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Revitalizing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities: Strategies for Postindustrial Success from Gary to Lowell

Torey Hollingsworth and Alison Goebel, 2017
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2017 Federal Financing Toolkit: A guide to federal programs, resources, and financing opportunities for smart growth development
Smart Growth America, 2017
Accelerating Cities: Why States are the Most Important Partners for Economically Challenged Cities
National Resource Network, 2018
Action Agenda for Historic Preservation in Legacy Cities
Preservation Rightsizing Network et al., 2015
Active Design Guidelines
Center for Active Design, 2010
Anchored in Place: How Funders Are Helping Anchor Institutions Strengthen Local Economies
The Funders Network for Smart Growth and Liveable Communities, et al., 2018
Architecture of Segregation
Paul Jargowsky, 2015
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
DePaul University, live
Atlas of Shrinking Cities
Phillipp Oswalt (Ed.), 2006
Belt Magazine
2018–live
Bringing Vitality to Main Street: How Immigrant Small Businesses Help Local Economies Grow
David Kallick, 2015
Build a Better Burb
Congress for New Urbanism, 2015
Campaign to Take Back Vacant Land
Center for Community Investment
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2018–live
Center for Community Progress
Cities Growing Smaller
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, 2008
Collective Impact Forum
2014–live
Community Land Trusts
Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, 2005
Community Organizing Handbook
Center for Community Engagement, 2014
Community-Wealth.org
Democracy Collaborative, 2018–live
Corner Side Yard
Pete Saunders, 2018–live
Definition of Placemaking: Four Different Types
Mark Wyckoff
Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities
Brent D. Ryan, 2014
Detroit Future City Strategic Framework
Detroit Future City, 2012
Downtown Revitalization in Small and Midsized Cities
American Planning Association, 2018
Economic Impact of Placemaking
Sarah Craft, 2014
Inclusive Recovery in US Cities
Erika C. Poethig et al., 2018
Innovation Spaces: The New Design of Work
Julie Wagner and Dan Watch, 2016 – live
Investing in What Works for America’s Communities
Low Income Investment Fund, 2012
Land Bank Information Headquarters
Center for Community Progress, 2018
Leading Together Series
The Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, 2015
Looking for Progress in America’s Smaller Legacy Cities: A Report for Place-based Funders
Will Lambe et al., 2017
Made in Place: Small-Scale Manufacturing & Neighborhood Revitalization
Smart Growth America, 2017
Managing Change: Preservation and Rightsizing in America
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 2017
Mapping America's Legacy Cities
Toni Griffin et al., 2015
Market Value Analysis
The Reinvestment Fund, 2018 – live
Mass Inc Gateway Cities Innovation Institute
Mass Inc, 2018 – live
Middle Neighborhoods
The American Assembly, 2018–live
Municipal Fiscal Health
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2018–live
Neighborhood Change: Leveraging Research to Advance Community Revitalization
Alan Mallach, 2015
New Americans and a New Direction: The Role of Immigrants in Reviving the Great Lakes Region
New American Economy, 2017
On the Edge: America's Middle Neighborhoods
Paul Brophy, Ed., 2016
Owning Your Own Job is a Beautiful Thing: Community Wealth Building in Cleveland, Ohio
Ted Howard, 2012
Planetizen: Legacy Cities
Planetizen
Planetizen: Small Cities
Planetizen
Planning in America’s Legacy Cities: Toward Better, Smaller Communities After Decline
Hunter Morrison and Margaret Dewar
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States
Raj Chetty et al.
Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland
Alan Mallach, 2012
Reinventing America's Legacy Cities: Strategies for Cities Losing Population
The American Assembly, 2011
Reinvigorating Springfield's Economy: Lessons from Resurgent Cities
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009
Renewing America’s Economic Promise Through Older Industrial Cities
Alan Berube and Cecile Murray, 2018
Resident and Community Engagement in Community Land Trusts
Emily Thaden and Jeffrey S. Lowe, 2014
Shrinking Cities Reading Series
Torey Hollingsworth, 2017
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
Catherine Tumber, 2011
Sparking Change in New England’s Smaller Cities: Lessons from Early Rounds of the Working Cities Challenge
Kseniya Benderskaya and Colleen Dawicki, 2017
State Government and Urban Revitalization: How States Can Foster Stronger, More Inclusive Cities
Alan Mallach, 2017
Strategic Code Enforcement: A New Model for Reclaiming Vacant Properties and Stabilizing Neighborhoods
Joe Schilling and Kermit Lind, 2018
Strongtowns
2018–live
The City After Abandonment
Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas (Eds.), 2012
The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
Alan Mallach, 2018
The Do's and Don'ts of Civic Branding
Aaron Renn, 2018
The Economic Impacts of Main Street in Michigan
Place Economics, 2014
The Empty House Next Door: Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States
Alan Mallach, 2018
The Geography of Jobs
Emily Garr Pacetti, 2015
The Promise and Potential of Transformative Transit-Oriented Development in Gateway Cities
Daniel Hodge and Ben Forman, 2018
The Shared Prosperity Partnership
The Kresge Foundation, the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, the Urban Institute, and Living Cities, 2018–live
The Untapped Potential of Land Bank/Land Trust Partnerships
John Emmeus Davis
Untapped Potential: Strategies for Revitalization and Reuse
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Research and Policy Lab, 2017
Urban Street Design Guide
National Association of City Transportation Officials, 2013
Urbanophile
Aaron Renn, 2018–live
White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities: Final Report
White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities, 2017
Working Cities Challenge
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, live

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