Local Initiatives Support Corporation. 2002. The whole agenda: The past and future of community development. (On-line: cited 13 January 2003). A literature review of successful strategies for Community Development Corporations (CDCs), as well as a good history describing the evolution of the CDC’s mission, composition, and funding.

National Main Street Center. National Trust for Historic Preservation. 2001. 2000 National Main Street Trends Survey. (On-line: cited 8 January 2003). The National Main Street Center’s 2000 survey of two hundred organizations in urban areas. The results document annual changes in several economic indicators and the most important challenges these organizations face in development of downtowns.

Robertson, Kent A. 1995. Downtown redevelopment strategies in the United States: An end-of-the-century assessment. Journal of the American Planning Association 61 (Autumn): 429-437. A survey of current policies on downtown development focused on planning issues such as historic preservation, shopping centers, waterfront and office development, and transportation.

Robertson, Kent A. 1999. Can small-city downtowns remain viable? Journal of the American Planning Association 65 (Summer): 270-283. Robertson surveyed fifty-seven cities in 1995 with populations between 25,000 and 50,000. He then conducted in depth case studies of five of those cities in order to discern the value of various strategies to improve the strength of the downtown area.

The Urban Institute. 1998. Community development in the 1990s. (On-line: cited 9 January 2003). Description of the National Community Development Initiative (NCDI) and its results. The NCDI was a project designed to fund and track community development organizations and other nonprofits in twenty-three cities from 1991 through 2001. The report contains the most and least successful development strategies for these organizations.