These This paper looks into frameworks which aim at furthering the discussion of the role of regenerative design practices in a city’s historic core and the tool of urban design to achieve urban revitalization on the island of Cyprus. It also examines the region’s demographic mix, the effectiveness of its governmental coordination and the strategies of adaptive reuse and strategic investments i...

The legacy of the federal government’s Empowerment Zone initiative is contested. The evidence undergirding the initiative’s legacy, however, is based primarily on models that estimate national effects. We use an alternative evaluation strategy that places greater emphasis on local Empowerment Zones as distinct programs. Our findings show that several cities did produce improvements that likely ...

Cultural planning and the development of cultural quarters has become a new orthodoxy in the revitalization of inner city industrial districts, yet this orthodoxy is now widely questioned as to whether it delivers on its promises. In Birmingham UK, the aim to create a new cultural quarter in the industrial inner city area of Eastside represents a unique opportunity for the city to examine and l...

Green infrastructure is a general term referring to the management of landscapes in ways that generate human and ecosystem benefits. Many municipalities have begun to utilize green infrastructure in efforts to meet stormwater management goals. This study examines challenges to integrating gray and green infrastructure for stormwater management, informed by interviews with practitioners in Cleve...

This presentation represents the first effort by the Center for Urban Studies (CENTER), University at Buffalo to reconceptualize community development and neighborhood revitalization. This essay grows directly out of the applied research and neighborhood planning activities of the CENTER, and our efforts to understand more deeply the issues we confronted. Professor Sam Cole, a Senior Research A...