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Housing
2005 Idea Book: Updating Post-World War II Homes
By First Suburbs Coalition of Kansas City, Mid-America Regional Council, 2005
This guide examines four of the most common housing types found in these suburbs: Ranch, Split Level, Two Story, and Cape Cod, and provides dozens of ideas for appropriate ways to update and make additions to them.
FTS International Property Maintenance Code
Code Violations to Neighborhood Treasures
Foreclosure Prevention Program
Revitalization
Opening Lines of Communication for Successful Redevelopment
By Christiana McFarland, Nation's Cities Weekly, June 2, 2008
Retail Redevelopment: A City Practices Brief
By William McGahan and Christiana McFarland, National League of Cities, 2008
This City Practices Brief offers examples of how cities and suburbs across the country have redeveloped their abandoned regional malls, poorly maintained strip centers, and other retail spaces into community assets.
Redevelopment Ready Communities
By Conan Smith, Executive Director, Michigan Suburbs Alliance
Presented at FTS Council steering committee meeting, May 2008
Green Remodeling Idea Book
By First Suburbs Coalition of Kansas City, Mid-America Regional Council, 2008
This guide provides practical ideas to make any remodeling project a green project- from a fresh coat of paint to a complex room addition.
Nation's Cities Weekly article series on strip center redevelopment:
Revitalizing Strip Centers Vital for Cities Economy October 8, 2007
Obstacles to Redeveloping Obsolete Suburban Strip Centers October 29, 2007
Collaborating With Developers to Make Strip Redevelopment a Reality October 29, 2007
Strip Redevelopment in First Tier Suburbs: A Success Story November 5, 2007
Redevelopment: It's not a Challenge, It's an Opportunity
By Laura McConwell, Mayor, Mission, Kansas
Presented at Congressional City Conference, March 2008
Revitalizing Aging Strip Centers - Case Study
By Dennis Harder, Sr. V.P, Joseph Freed Associates and John Adler, Community Development
Presented at Congress of Cities, November 2007
Think Global/Act Local
By David Mogavero, President, Mogavero Notestine Associates
Presented at Congress of Cities, November 2007
From Floodplain to SmartGrowth
By Laura McConwell, Mayor, Mission, Kansas
Presented at FTS Steering Committee Meeting, June 2007
Regional Coordination
Unifying Voices, Confronting Challenges: A Resource Guide for Developing Regional Collaborations of First Tier Suburbs
By NLC's First Tier Suburb Council, 2005
This guide serves as a framework to help city officials from first tier suburban communities build relationships with regional partners.
Other
First Suburbs Handbook: Case Studies and Development Tools for First Tier Suburbs
By First Suburbs Coalition of Kansas City, Mid-America Regional Council, 2004
This handbook demonstrates some of the many ways that first suburbs are addressing such issues as loss of businesses, declining retail sales, increases in rental housing, stagnant or declining housing values, and issues related to maintaining their infrastructure.
Halfway to Everywhere: A Portrait of America's First-Tier Suburbs
By Hudnut, William H., III. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2003
A portrayal of first tier suburbs that reports the issues and initiatives that are rejuvenating the suburbs that ring large central cities. Includes references to other studies and publications and an appendix, which contains a summary of ten principles for revitalizing inner-ring suburbs that were developed from two Urban Land Institute symposiums on inner-ring suburbs.
FTS 101
By Former Councilmember Pam Carter, Tukwila, Washington, 2007
This powerpoint presentation describes what first tier suburbs are, their challenges, assets, and policy concerns, as well as the activities of NLC's First Tier Suburbs Council to date.
One Fifth of America, A Comprehensive Guide to America's First Suburbs
Brookings Institute
This paper defines first suburbs throughout the nation, examines their similarities and differences and sets out a policy agenda tailored specifically to these distinctive places.
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