Wendy Patton
February 12, 2011
Columbus, Ohio

A wave of new interest in cities and towns, accompanied by analysis and reports and events, was launched well before Wall Street melted down and well before the economic whiplash hit state and local governments. New ideas about approaching redevelopment and encouraging new kinds and patterns of development were already under discussion when the recession hit. Today, those reports are hard to separate from the reports advising on how to survive the current fiscal crisis.