Urban Community Development: Market, Government, and Social Forces

Posted by on April 4, 2003

What should be done about our nation’s housing crisis? Will educational choice help or hurt public schools? Why is there no quality retail in urban areas? Will biotech improve the job prospects of New Haven residents?

On Friday, April 11th, the Yale Law School, YLS Housing and Community Development Clinic, and Yale Law and Enterprise Forum will host a day-long symposium entitled “Urban Community Development: Market, Government, and Social Forces.”

The symposium’s keynote addresses, featuring Scott Cummings, Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, and Anne Habiby, Co-Executive Director of Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, will offer critical perspectives on two competing paradigms for urban community development: market-based solutions and politically-engaged social mobilization. Subsequent panels on education, housing, retail development, and job creation will examine specific innovative approaches to community development, with attention to the role of markets, government, and social mobilization.

The panels will feature leading experts and innovators in the field of urban community development and will offer a unique opportunity for exchange between practitioners and theorists. Additionally, the event will provide a forum for those who think about and practice urban community development to meet each other informally. You can find more information, including on-line registration, at http://islandia.law.yale.edu/urbandev. Please note that, while we ask participants to pre-register online, there is no cost to attend the symposium.