Equitable Development

A collection of blog posts on themes of equitable and inclusive economic development.

Unlocking Outdoor Recreation for All: What We Learned

Fourth Economy recently hosted the Unlocking Outdoor Recreation for All webinar, featuring Jordan Katcher, Facilitator and Adjunct...

Civic Leaders Have Many Paths to Advancing Equity: Lessons from 100 Cities

Creating equitable and inclusive communities requires strategic thinking and creativity. Luckily, there are many strategies civic...

Advancing Equity in Housing

Creating equitable and inclusive communities requires strategic thinking and creativity. Luckily, there are many strategies civic...

Do the Right Thing: Three Takeaways from Main Street Now 2023

My Uber driver wants you to know that downtowns are dead. Heading to Boston to attend Main Street America’s Main Street Now conference in...

Making the Economy Work for Working Families

In the first two weeks of 2023, 6.8 million adults could not go to work because of caregiving responsibilities at home. At a time when...

Three Considerations for Developing Your Outreach and Engagement Strategy

Equitable community engagement is an essential component of building and maintaining strong communities. It involves creating...

Five-Year Plan to Make Allegheny County a Healthy Place to Live, Work, Play

The nationally accredited Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) regularly assesses and updates recommendations for improving the...

How the Inflation Reduction Act Changes the Game for Economic Developers

Paired with the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America (CHIPS) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...

Transforming Industrial Heartlands

In North America and Europe, the erosion of the economies of the industrial heartlands has given rise to a new populism that, in its...

Defining Resilience

Clients often ask us, “what does resilience actually mean?” Turns out, there are many definitions of this word. Ecologists may think of...

Four Observations from Three Conferences

I enjoyed meeting and re-meeting lots of people at the City, Nation, Place conference in London, the Association of Metropolitan Planning...

Three Takeaways from IEDC

IEDC’s annual conference gives economic development practitioners a chance to share ideas, best practices, and talk about the major...