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Ameregis studies of metropolitan areas have generated much favorable local, national, and international press. Ameregis and MARC's work has been highlighted in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Portland Oregonian, The San Francisco Examiner, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Columbus Dispatch, The Grand Rapids Press, The Virginia Pilot, The Idaho Statesman, The Detroit News, The Des Moines Register, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Winnipeg Free Press.

Myron Orfield has become nationally recognized as an expert in the area of metropolitan planning and policy-making. Ameregis' and Myron Orfield's research has been featured on "ABC News Nightline", CNN, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation", and in US News and World Report, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The National Journal, The Lusk Review, The Brookings Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forum for Social Economics, Governing Magazine, The Nation and Urban Land.



Sample Articles


Planners Here Meet on Sharing Tax Base
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - January 12, 2005

Property Taxes Rising Nationwide
The Christian Science Monitor - December 3, 2004

A blueprint for tax sharing: In Minnesota, dividing the spoils helps cities and suburbs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - February 15, 2004

In Twin Cities, tax-sharing gives everyone slice of development pie
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - February 13, 2004

Uncontrolled development seen harming state
New Haven Register - January 13, 2004

Metro Atlanta's Hidden Problem: Lax septic tank oversight brews health hazards
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - November 28, 2003

Crisis on Main Street
The Philadelphia Inquirer - November 23, 2003

Sprawl report places suburbs in ‘at-risk’ class
Toledo Blade - October 7, 2003

Money made here flows to Sun Belt
The Plain Dealer - September 21, 2003

Great Haven for Families, but Don't Bring Children
New York Times - August 13, 2003

Will's growing power, pains
Crain's Chicago Business - July 7, 2003

Under Attack on Smart Growth, Granholm Keeps the Faith
Great Lakes Bulletin News Service - May 8, 2003

Use of TIF for area projects questioned in Brookings study
St. Louis Business Journal - May 2, 2003

Sprawl hurting Saginaw
The Saginaw News - April 29, 2003

Downside of urban sprawl encourages us to change
The Flint Journal - April 29, 2003

Suburbs pay price for lack of planning
The Oakland Press - April 29, 2003

Farmland dwindles as housing sprawls
The Kalamazoo Gazette - April 28, 2003

Report warns 'unbalanced growth' is hurting region
The Grand Rapids Press - April 27, 2003

Regional Challenges, Regional Solutions
2003 National Conference Keynote Address, Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities - April 9, 2003

Common Ground, Common Good
Connecticut Catholic Conference - April 1, 2003

Rx for Suburbia
Utne magazine - March/April 2003

Regionalism versus reality
Isthmus Magazine - February 28, 2003

Ohio could learn from states where metropolitan areas cooperate
The Columbus Dispatch - February 11, 2003

Space Crunch: There are only so many acres between the Atlantic and the Pacific. What happens when all the good land is gone?
BUILDER Magazine - January 1, 2003

Suburbs to City: Drop the Attitude
New York Times - November 24, 2002

Book Review: The Politics of Suburbia
The American Prospect - Sept. 9, 2002

Orfield gives pointers on region development
Northwest Indiana Times - Sept. 6, 2002

Poverty in a Land of Plenty: Can Hartford Ever Recover?
New York Times - August 26, 2002

GOP, Democrats Locked In Race Toward Decline
Washington Post - August 4, 2002

Rethinking Urbanism: Book Review
New Democrats Online - July 29, 2002

To Sprawl Or Not To Sprawl
Minnesota Public Radio - July 22, 2002

District shared, but not needs
Los Angeles Times - July 8, 2002

Suburbs' Character Changes with Age, Urban Researcher Says
The Oregonian - June 20, 2002

Larry Eichel: Regional strategies a hard sell
Philadelphia Inquirer - June 14, 2002

Philadelphia, in Three Easy Pieces
Philadelphia Daily News - June 11, 2002

Daniel Weintraub: Suburbs aren't all tile roofs and middle class
Sacramento Bee - June 11, 2002

Sprawl Fostering Segregation: Book critiques tri-state growth
Cincinnati Post - May 22, 2002

Neal Peirce: Suburbs' New Anatomy: What 25 Regions Show
Washington Post Writers Group - May 19, 2002

Rules Mingle Income Groups
The Oregonian - May 15, 2002

The Swinging Suburbs (Audio)
NPR Boston, WBUR - May 7, 2002

David Broder: Suburbs In a New Light
Washington Post Writers Group - May 1, 2002

City, suburbs could gain by sharing growth's benefits
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Februrary 17, 2002

Sales Tax Sharing Debated in Sacramento
NPR

Detroit Archdiocese Tackles Sprawl
Great Lakes Bulletin News Service - October 11, 2001

Minnesota's Myron Orfield Builds Downtown to Cure Sprawl
The Elm Street Writers Group - April 11, 2001

Four Types of Racism: Spatial, Institutional, Internalized and Individual
an excerpt from Dwell in My Love, A Pastoral Letter on Racism
by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago
April 4, 2001

How to Heal Our Cities
The Sierra Club - June, 2000

Soaring Housing Costs Are Culprit In Suburban Poverty
USA Today - April 28, 1999

Prosperity Gap Predicted for South Puget Sound
The News Tribune - September 19, 1998

The Quest for Common Ground
Governing Magazine - June 1998

Inner city ills beset older S.F. suburbs
San Francisco Examiner - May 25, 1998

Planners say curb metro sprawl or watch investments dwindle
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - May 13, 1998

Can Cities Escape Political Isolation?
The American Prospect - January 1998

Older Suburbs Are Facing Survival Squeeze
USA Today - December 2, 1997

The Sapphire Necklace
The new map of tax base disparities in Northeast Ohio
EcoCity Cleveland - Fall, 1997

The Apostle of St. Paul
The Philadelphia Inquirer - July 9, 1997

A New City-Suburbs Hookup
US News & World Report - July 18, 1994



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