Assigned Readings

Green & Haines, Ch. 9, pp. 189-212 (Financial Capital)
Wheeler & Beatley: McDonough, Vale & Vale, Eisenberg & Yost (253-272) and Calthorpe (87-98)

Additional Resources about the Asset Based Approach to Community Development While not required readings, I strongly encourage you to consult these and similar publications as you develop your class presentations and your semester project

Arefi, M. (2004) An asset-based approach to policymaking: revisiting the history of urban planning and neighborhood change in Cincinnati's West End. Cities 21(6), 491-500.

Friedmann, J. (2007). The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-based Development of Newly Urbanizing Regions. Development & Change 38(6), 987-1271.

Mathie, A. & Cunningham, G. (2003) From clients to citizens: asset-based community development as a strategy for community-driven development. Development in Practice 13(5), 474-486.

Class Preparation

Models of Community Change Bring this to class with you.

Due Today

Community Profile

Additional Resources

Bartley, A. (2011) Building a 'community growth machine': The green development zone as a model for a new neighborhood economy. Social Policy 41(2), 9-20.

Bayraktar, M.E. & Owens, C.R. (2010) LEED implementation guide for construction practitioners. Journal of Architectural Engineering 16(3), 85-93.

Carmona, M. (2010) Contemporary public space: Critique and classification, Part one, Critique. Journal of Urban Design 15(1), 123-148.

Cidell, J. (2009) Building green: The emerging geography of LEED-certified buildings and professionals. Professional Geographer 61(2), 200-215.

Horwood, K. (2011) Green infrastructure: Reconciling urban green space and regional economic development, lessons learnt from experience in England's northwest region. Local Environment 16(10), 963-975.

Johnson, S., Asseffa, S., Berkshire, M., Gomberg, B. et al. (2005) The green development. Economic Development Journal 4(2), 12-19.

Kabo, J. & Baille, C. (2009) Seeing through the lens of social justice: A threshold for engineering. European Journal of Engineering Education 34(4), 317-325.

Keeley, M. (2011) The green area ratio: An urban site sustainability metric. Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 54(7), 935-958.

Lam, P.T.I., Chan, E.H.W., Chau, C.K., Poon, C.S. et al. (2009) Integrating green specifications in construction and overcoming barriers in their use. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice 135(4), 142-152.

Lee, J., Hsu, L., Han, H. & Kim, Y. (2010) Understanding how consumers view green hotels: How a hotel's green image can influence behavioural intentions. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 18(7), 901-914.

Lstiburek, J.W. (2011) Seeing red over green roofs. ASHRAE Journal 53(6), 68-71.

McGuirk, P. & Dowling, R. (2009) Master-planned residential developments: Beyond iconic spaces of neoliberalism? Asia Pacific Viewpoint 50(2), 120-234.

Qi, G.Y., Shen, L.Y., Zeng, S.X. & Ochoa, J. (2010) The drivers for contractors' green innovation: An industry perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production 18(14), 1358-1365.

Robichaud, L.B. & Anantatmula, V.C. (2011) Greening project management practices for sustainable construction. Journal of Management in Engineering 27(1), 48-57.

Rosseau, M. (2009) Re-imaging the city centre for the middle classes: Regeneration, gentrification and symbolic policies in "loser cities." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(3), 770-788.

Spinks, M. (2011) Adption of a network approach to sustainable building standard process, not product: A response column to "A political-ecology of the built environment: LEED certification for green buildings", Cidell, 2009, Local Environment, 14 (7), pp. 621-633. Local Environment 16(1), 87-92.

Wolch, J., Newell, J., Seymour, M., Huang, H.B. et al. (2010 The forgotten and the future: Reclaiming back alleys for a sustainable city. Environment & Planning A 42(12), 2874-2896.