School of Planning, Design and Construction Land Policy

• Placemaking as an Economic Development Tool: A Placemaking Guidebook

  Published on May 31, 2016
  The Land Policy Institute, in collaboration with the MIplace Partnership Initiative, released the most comprehensive guidebook on placemaking in 2016, drawing from the best works available.

• Building More Livable Communities: Corridor Design Portfolio

  Published on November 27, 2014
  The Mid-Michigan Program for Greater Sustainability, a three-year HUD-funded grant administered by the TCRPC with local partners, including the Land Policy Institute, released the “Building More Livable Communities: Corridor Design Portfolio" in 2014.

• Rural Water Quality Protection: A Planning & Zoning Guidebook for Local Officials

  Published on December 31, 2012
  The LPI Planning & Zoning Center has developed a new planning and zoning guidebook for use by local government officials in very rural parts of Michigan.

• Michigan Sign Guidebook: The Local Planning and Regulation of Signs

  Published on December 31, 2011
  The LPI Planning & Zoning Center developed a new sign guide­book for use by local government officials.

• Land Resource Management: Economic Foundations and New Directions

  The Land Resource Management: Economic Foundations and New Directions is a capstone, the final work of eminent economist, scholar and former Michigan State University Professor, the late Dr. Raleigh Barlowe who died at age 98 on May 18, 2013.