Internet Resources
and Links
EZ
Project Web Links
Part of the above site; provides helpful links to
federal and state agency websites, a selection of Enterprise Community
sites, research institutions, professional organizations and others.
EZ
Development Library
Provides links to various resources on financing EZ/ECs
and links to political organizations. Resources ranging from business
development and training programs to sustainable community building, housing,
health and safety issues. Includes links to human services resources.
History of the Urban Enterprise Association and the Urban Enterprise Zone.
National
Association of Development Organizations (NADO). Rural EZ/EC News.
Online newsletter providing information specific to
issues and concerns of rural empowerment zones.
Greenbaum, Robert T. 1998. The Impact of State Urban Enterprise Zones on Business Outcomes.
Greenbaum, Robert T., and John Engberg. 1997. The Impact of State Enterprise Zones on Urban Housing Markets.
Leonard, Lee. 1998. Study:
Enterprise zones not paying big dividends.
EMPOWERMENT ZONES
Descriptions
-------1996. Beyond Shelter: Building Communities of Opportunity.
The United States
Report for Habitat II.
-------1994. Building Communities Together: The President’ Community Enterprise
Board. United States Department of Housing and Development. U. S. Department
of
Agriculture.
-------1997. What Works! In the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities.
United
States Department of Housing and Development. U. S. Department of Agriculture.
-------1998. EZ/EC Building Communities Together. www.ezec.gov Created
9/9/98. Visited
2/2/98.
Policy Implications & Early Evaluations
Berger, Rene. 1997. "People, power politics: An Assessment of Federal Empowerment
Zones." Planning. February pp 4-9.
Cuomo, Andrew. 1995 “U.S. Seeks to Rebuild Battered Inner Cities.” Forum
for Applied
Research and Public Policy. 10: 92-95.
Engberg, John 1996. “Employment Policy and urban Economic Development.”
Housing
Policy Debate. Vol 7, Iss. 4:695-711.
Gaventa, John, Morrissey, Janice and Edwards, Wanda. 1995. “Empowering
People: Goals
and Realities.” Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. 10:
116-122.
Howell, J. M. and T. N. Konatich. 1995. "Private Sector Wary of Zone Investment."
Forum
for Applied Research and Public Policy. 10: 96-100.
Keough, Robert. 1998. “The Death and Life of an Empowerment Zone.”
Commonwealth.
Winter:46-53.
Liebschutz, Sarah. 1995. “Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities:
Reinventing
Federalism for Distressed Communities.” Publius. Summer v 25, n 3: 117+.
Wolf, Michael. 1995. “U. S. Urban Areas Seek New Paths to Prosperity.”
Forum for
Applied Research and Public Policy. 10: 84-91.
Descriptions
Butler, Stuart. 1981. Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities.
Universe Books;
New York.
Butler, Stuart. 1980. Enterprise Zones: Pioneering in the Inner City.
Heritage Foundation;
Washington D.C.
-------1986. Enterprise Zones in America: A Selected Resource Guide.
United States
Department of Housing and Development.
Green, Roy and Michael Brintnall. 1991. Enterprise Zones: New Direction
in Economic
Development. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Policy Discussion
Bendick, Marc Jr. and Mary Lou Egan. 1991. Business Development in the
Inner-City:
Enterprise with Community Links. Community Development Research Center.
New School
for Social Research, New York.
Birdsong, Bret C. 1989. Federal Enterprise Zones: A Poverty Program for
the 1990s?
Urban Institute. Discussion paper. October.
Rubin, Barry. 1995. “Enterprise Zones: Cure for Urban Ills?” Forum for
Applied Research
and Public Policy. 10: 101-106.
Wolf, Michael. 1995. “U. S. Urban Areas Seek New Paths to Prosperity.”
Forum for
Applied Research and Public Policy. 10: 84-91.
Program Evaluations/Case Studies
Haar, C. M., Wolf, M. A., Sheon, SL. and Friedlander J. 1982. Urban Enterprise
Zones:
Inner City Panacea or Supply Side Showpiece? Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy Concept
Series No. 105.
Jones, Susana, et al. 1985. Business Impacts of State Enterprise
Zones. Cambridge
Systematics, Inc. Cambridge , Massachusetts. September.
-------1986. State Designated Enterprise Zones: Ten Case Studies.
The Office of Program
Analysis and Evaluation. United States Department of Housing and Development.
August.
Levitan, Sar and Elizabeth Miller. 1992. Enterprise Zones: A Promise Based
on Rhetoric.
Occasional Paper 1.
Reeder, R. J. 1993. Rural Enterprise Zones in Theory and Practice: An Assessment
of the
their Development Potential. Washington, DC: Economic Research Service,
U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Sridhar, Kala. 1996. “Tax Costs and Employment Benefits of Enterprise Zones.”
Economic
Development Quarterly. Vol. 10, No. 1, February :69-90.
Van Allen, Terry. 1995. The Impact of Enterprise Zones on Employment. Austin
& Winfield:
San Francisco.
Weisbrod, Glen, et al. 1983. Small Business Participation in the
Economic Development
of Depressed Urban Sites: Implications for Enterprize Zones and Other Incentive
Policies. U.S. Small Business Administration. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wilder M. G. and B. M. Rubin. 1996. "Rhetoric versus Reality: A Review
of Studies on
State Enterprise Zone Programs." Journal of the American Planning
Association. 62:
473-91.
Underhill, J. A. and M. Savage. 1987. Many Faces of Enterprise Zones: Some
Transatlantic Comparisons. United States Department of Housing and Development.
(Print bibliography compiled by Constanza Pallini for PLAN 261, Spring
1998.)