Distressed Cities Sponsored by the Ridenour Faculty Fellowship Fund, Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs will be hosting a two day conference on Distressed Cities, on April 12-13, 2012, in Blacksburg, VA. The conference will foster a broad, interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of distressed cities and the implications for policy and practice.
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Last month (Jan 2012) the Brookings Institution, together with its partners, the Center for Community Progress and Columbia Universities’ American Assembly, unveiled a new book of policy and strategy essays on the plight of older industrial cities that have suffered decades of population loss and decline—what some scholars call shrinking cities. Edited by a friend
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Gang and Lindsay’s recent opinion piece in the New York Times, offers a glimpse into what might become more common place in suburbia’s ever growing more diverse and immigrant filled communities. Often single family houses present a mismatch between cost and needed size over lifetime of family as it changes. They suggest instead of insisting this mismatch a
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Could using an immigration policy to attract potential urban residents help reverse population decline in the city of Detroit? Possibly. The following article looks at the steps Winnipeg took torevise its declining population and tax base by enticing new immigrants to settle there. As a potential urban revitalization strategy, the article lays out several policy
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Two years ago, the Cuyahoga Couty Land Reutilization Corporation (CCLRC) was created. The organization, also known as the Land Bank, is a non-profit corporation committed to community revitalization. Since its inception, CCLRC strives to acquire abandoned properties and give them to communities for redevelopment or designate them for demolition, effectively combating the real estate speculation
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