Neighborhood Revitilization

From Rusting to Bustling – Cleveland, OH

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Yesterday NPR reported something that most people just a few years ago would scoff at, Cleveland is cool.  It seems that Cleveland’s economic development strategy of “targeting stronger market neighborhoods” and around “areas with major assets” during the down years of population and economic declince  it experienced, are paying off. Incremental in their approach, Cleveland seems to have wisely used it’s limited resources to leveage people, dollars and
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Miscalulation for Midwest Cities in Transition – Dependence or Diversify?

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Urban spectators are taking notice of a recent economic development and incentive trend that is geared towards attracting more traditional Midwest industries to places such as Youngstown, OH and Detroit, MI. Potentially signaling a step backwards, instead of continuing to push forward and diversifying local, regional and state economies in the hopes of improving the quality of
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Breaking free of the Growth Planning Paradigm

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APA’s PAS Reports (Cities in Transition, PAS 568) (Sustaining Places, PAS 567) In a recent APA Sustaining Places blog by David Morely (“Is Growth a Prerequisite for Long-Term Community Health and Prosperity?”), the old assumptions of growth and decline of cities and communities in relationship to their health and prosperity are revisited.  David discusses how the growth oriented planning
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Converting Brownfields into Green Energy Generation Sites

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From 1801 to 1970, the Philadelphia Navy Yard served as a landfill and incinerator, contaminated by shipbuilding and other industrial activities. Since 1970, the area has been largely abandoned, until recently, when the city decided to redevelop the area with a commitment to sustainability, reflecting Mayor Nutter’s goal of establishing the city as the greenest
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Converting Brownfields into Green Energy Generation Sites

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From 1801 to 1970, the Philadelphia Navy Yard served as a landfill and incinerator, contaminated by shipbuilding and other industrial activities.  Since 1970, the area has been largely abandoned, until recently, when the city decided to redevelop the area with a commitment to sustainability, reflecting Mayor Nutter’s goal of establishing the city as the greenest
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