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Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design
by Douglas Kelbaugh
Description: Offers strategies for reclaiming and improving neighborhoods and cities. At the heart of the book are summaries of eight design workshops, or charrettes, each consisting of five days of brainstorming by university students, community leaders, and design professionals. The charrettes apply design concepts to real problems such as housing, transportation, and suburban sprawl.

Cities on the Rebound:
by William Hudnut
Description: Former Indianapolis mayor William Hudnut revitalized that city by encouraging public-private sector partnerships. In this book, he argues that such partnerships are the key to making our cities more livable.

Cities Back from the Edge: A New Life for Downtown
by Roberta Brandes Gratz
Description: Explores the resurgence of downtown America through stories of urban recovery. Each case demonstrates successful approaches to the key issues facing cities and towns today: transportation planning, containing sprawl, facing the threat of big-box superstore retailers, and preserving the essential components that anchor thriving, vibrant downtowns.

Brownfields: Redeveloping Environmentally Distressed Properties
by Harold Rafson
Description: How-to manual edited by brownfield developers. Includes information on tools and techniques.

Business Incubators:
by Urban Land Institute
Description: ULI InfoPacket of photocopied materials on business incubator development topics. Includes magazine articles, unpublished reports, sections from ULI books and reports, project descriptions, and title/tables of contents from relevant books.

Brownfield Development:
by Urban Land Institute
Description: ULI InfoPacket of photocopied materials on brownfield development topics. Includes magazine articles, unpublished reports, sections from ULI books and reports, project descriptions, and title/tables of contents from relevant books.

American Cities: What Works What Doesn't
by Alexander Garvin
Description: Analyzes more than 250 programs and projects in 100 cities. Illustrates why some projects succeeded in achieving revitalization goals and others failed-and what lessons can be learned from both the successes and failures.

American's Downtowns: Growth, Politics & Preservation
by Richard C. Collins
Description: Reports on an effort by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to assess the effectiveness of efforts in 10 cities to integrate preservation values into the local policies that shape downtown growth and development. The cities studied are Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Roanoke, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Adaptive Reuse:
by Urban Land Institute
Description: ULI InfoPacket of photocopied materials on adaptive reuse development topics. Includes magazine articles, unpublished reports, sections from ULI books and reports, project descriptions, and title/tables of contents from relevant books.

A Guide to Smart Growth: Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions
by Jane S. Shaw
Description: Examines the public policy implications of suburban sprawl. Full chapters are devoted to issues such as zoning law reform, traffic congestion and the free market vs. government solutions to suburban sprawl. Also included are in-depth analyses of the lessons learned from smart growth initiatives in Atlanta, GA and Portland, OR.

Communities Participation Methods in Design and Planning:
by Henry Sanoff
Description: Features 15 case studies of community design projects in both rural and urban areas as well as "design games," a way to educate citizens about the consequences of their planning and design choices.

Downtown Development Handbook:
by Susanna McBee
Description: The strategies required to rebuild downtowns are presented along with examples of cities that have succeeded. The elements of a dynamic downtown and the ways to incorporate them are described, including retail; market-rate and low-income housing; hotel, convention, entertainment, and cultural facilities; transportation and parking; offices; and mixed-use developments.

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880 - 1950
by Robert Fogelson
Description: Comprehensive history of the development and decline of American urban centers up to the middle of the 20th century. The author details private and public debate overtime on issues such as decentralization, parking, traffic congestion, urban transit systems, and zoning. This is one of the most thorough analyses of the evolution of America's downtowns.

Downtown Housing:
by Urban Land Institute
Description: ULI InfoPacket of photocopied materials on downtown housing development topics. Includes magazine articles, unpublished reports, sections from ULI books and reports, project descriptions, and title/tables of contents from relevant books.

Downtown Inc.: How American Rebuilds Cities
by Bernard Frieden
Description: In case studies, the authors delve into the inner workings of the public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San Diego, Seattle, St. Paul and Pasadena.

Downtown Parking Made Easy: 6 Steps to Improving the Quality and Quantity of Downtown Parking
by Mary Barr
Description: Demonstrates how to review, manage, design and promote parking systems to ensure convenient parking for downtown shoppers and other visitors. Table of Contents; 1. Reviewing Your Parking System, 2. Management Options, 3. Parking Design, 4. Shoppers vs. Workers, 5. Promoting Parking, 6. Pricing Matrix.

Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities
by Michael Burayidi
Description: This book is written specifically for small town planners. Using case examples of communities with populations under 100,000, it evaluates strategies that communities have used when attempting to economically revitalize their downtown areas.

Economic-Fiscal Impacts of Development:
by Urban Land Institute
Description: ULI InfoPacket of photocopied materials on economic and fiscal impact studies and methods. Includes magazine articles, unpublished reports, sections from ULI books and reports, project descriptions, and title/tables of contents from relevant books.

Funding Downtown Promotions: 5 Key Steps to Funding and Managing Downtown Promotions
by Mary Barr
Description: Illustrates how to raise money for downtown marketing and promotions and how to make those dollars go farther with sponsorships, vendor fees, co-op advertising, volunteers and more. Table of Contents; 1. Running successful events, 2. Increasing membership and participation, 3. Working with Volunteers, 4. Downtown Fundraisers, 5. The BID Strategy.

Funding Your Downtown Organization:
by Doyle Hyett
Description: This text includes the results of a national survey conducted in 1998, by HyettPalma, to answer the question -- how are communities funding the administrative costs of their Downtown organizations? In addition to the survey results, this text also includes 15 case studies that illustrate specific ways in which that funding is being garnered.