Want to pull more people into city centres? Stop pushing them out to the suburbs.
While urban development freezes are clearly not the solution, many growing urban communities are wrestling with the issue of how to manage growth intelligently. It is not enough to say that anti-growth policies don't work. So what is the alternative? In this column from the Halifax Chronicle Herald, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley lays out a programme for making city centres attractive places to live and do business, so that people live there because they want to, not because they've been forced to do so by bossy bureaucrats. To find out how other cities have revived their centres by positive incentives rather than attacks on suburban property owners and lifestyles,