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2007 Maine Informed Growth Act for Big Box Stores
Type Act or Session Law
Year 2007
Level State
State(s) Maine
Source Maine State Legislature
Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice
This state law requires developers to submit an impact report for superstores, or retail stores that are 75,000 square feet or larger. The comprehensive impact study must identify the effects of the large-scale retail development on the community as a whole, including economic effects...
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New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture and Design
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2012
Level County
State(s) All States
Source National Governors Association
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources
With concerns over job creation and business growth holding a prominent - and persistent - position on policy agendas today, governors are increasingly calling on state agencies to support economic growth. It's not just economic and workforce development agencies that governors want...
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Guide for Embedding Breakthrough Innovation in Local Government
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source City Accelerator
Policy Areas Energy, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility
Government is often thought of as a place where good ideas go to die. We who work in local government know this is not true. We also know, however, that cities' current set of approaches and solutions won't be enough to address our most pressing challenges. We need more and fundamentally...
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What Works Cities: The City Hall Data Gap
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Bloomberg Philanthropies
Policy Areas Data & Technology
Unlocking the potential of data and evidence to inform decision making is key to ensuring cities thrive in the 21st century. This brief quantifies cities' current practices around the use of data. The analysis is focused on information from the 39 cities visited by What Works Cities...
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Creating Change through Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source PolicyLink
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources
Collectively, arts and culture enable understanding of the past and envisioning of a shared, more equitable future. In disinvested communities, arts and culture act as tools for equitable development- shaping infrastructure, transportation, access to healthy food, and connecting community...
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Funding Sources for Public Art
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) All States
Source Project for Public Spaces
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources
Securing adequate funding is the cornerstone of any public art program. Aside from donations from private individuals and corporations, there are a number of approaches through which to garner financial support for art. These ways can be broken into four broad tracts: public/private...
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Innovation and the City
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Center for an Urban Future
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Transportation & Mobility
In recent years, cities have become the drivers of government innovation. As urban growth has exploded over the past half century - increasing from a third to nearly 60 percent of world population today - local officials have been forced to solve problems and generate new ideas, policies,...
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Affordable Space How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) All States
Source Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety
The cost of leasing commercial space is soaring in many U.S. cities, threatening the future of independent businesses. In cities as diverse as Oakland and Nashville, Milwaukee and Portland, Maine, retail rents have shot up by double-digit percentages over the last year alone. As the...
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Trends in Smart City Development
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National League of Cities
Policy Areas Community Development, Data & Technology
This report examines the meanings and practices associated with the term 'smart cities.' Smart city initiatives involve three components: information and communication technologies (ICTs) that generate and aggregate data; analytical tools which convert that data into usable information;...
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The Creative Corridor: A Main Street Revitalization
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) Arkansas
Source Mayors Innovation Project
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources
If ecologies evolve through diversification, cities mature through aggregation of talent and resources. The Creative Corridor Plan is premised upon the aggregation of complementary creative organizations currently scattered throughout Little Rock. Some of these groups exist at the...
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Thinking Differently About Development
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level County, City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Government Finance Review
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Housing
Mixed-use, high-density development produces greater revenues per acre than low-density patterns. This report highlights how suburban areas generate less tax revenue than urban areas but incur higher public costs and consume more land. It recommends that municipalities reinvest in...
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