"Public Markets: Anchors for Neighborhood Economic Development," the 2010 report from Reconnecting America's CTOD partner, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, has been added to the Research Center's best practices database. The report notes that sustainable employment growth comes from business creation, and public markets play a critical role as local business incubators. Attractive markets anchor a business district, the authors explain, and bring in a greater number of customers. The report includes case studies from the Ann Arbor Farmers Market, Eastern Market Detroit, Easter Market DC and Pike Place Market.

The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) today released results of a year-long study into the potential for transit-oriented development to unlock economic, environmental and fiscal benefits for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.

A little more than a year after releasing Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America, Brookings is back with another look at how well jobs and transit are linked.

The Center for Neighborhood Technology will hold a webinar Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. CST to discuss the latest updates to the Housing + Transportion Affordability Index. 

Reconnecting America and its partners in the Center for Transit-Oriented Development are out at Rail~Volution in Washington, DC, Oct. 16-Oct. 19.  A list of their workshops and seminars is here.

Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit-Oriented Development have been working in the Twin Cities for several years. Recently, CTOD partner Nadine Fogarty of Strategic Economics participated in a Central Corridor Funders Collaborative program entitled "Preserving our vision through an uncertain market."

People have been grouping facts and figures since the dawn of time into specific types but when Transit Oriented Development (TOD) was first starting many folks thought that it was Manhattan or bust.  Of course, that isn't the case but along the way the Center for TOD has developed a different way of thinking about how places along a transit corridor and in a transit region interact with each other and support regional growth and equity.  In this film series, Sam Zimbabwe, Director of the Center for TOD discusses why typologies are an important part of the planning process.  This is an introduction.  For more information on TOD typologies by the Center for TOD and other planning firms, visit our Typologies featured topic page. Part 1: Why TOD Typologies Part 2: What Do We Need to Think About? Part 3: Can TOD…

About two months ago the Center for TOD released a report called Rails to Real Estate.  The basic gist of the report was that development along three new light rail lines was influenced by a number of different factors, some of which include income, employment proximity and walkability.  But to me one factor stood out specifically.  No matter where the vacant land was available, development was happening proximate to employment destinations along the corridor.  As you can see below, along each of the lines that were studied, development followed employment.