Urban Revitalization

A Museum With A Social Revolution To Start

| Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Gentrification, Urban Revitalization, Urban Renewal Cleveland, Moca Cleveland, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland Moca, Culture News

By Karen Cilento Click here for the original article. MOCA / Farshid Moussavi. Courtesy MOCA Nearly two years ago, we introduced Farshid Mou...

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A Night in Anacostia: The Beginning of Southeast D.C.'s Rebirth

Raymond Schillinger | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dc, Art, Urban Revitalization, Gentrification, Urban, Anacostia, Washington DC, DC Neighborhoods, D.C. Anacostia, D.C. Around Town, Anacostia D.C., DC Gentrification, DC News

Signs suggest Anacostia is next in line for resurrection. The vestiges of economic blight -- unkempt liquor stores and condemned buildings -- are slowly vanishing as startup businesses, art galleries and new restaurants take their place.

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How Can the Foreclosure Crisis Have a Positive Impact on Our Communities?

Phillip Cooley | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Detroit Foreclosures, Real Estate Developer, Urban Revitalization, Detroit Improvement, Detroit Impact, Property Development, Ponyride, Detroit News

After seeing the devastation caused by the foreclosure crisis, I wanted to find an action-based and citizen-led antidote to vacant properties and blight-ridden landscapes. I believe that change roots in community.

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Leadership Lessons, Imported from Detroit

Josh Linkner | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Creativity, Detroit, Detroit Automakers, Innovation, Henry Ford, Urban Revitalization, Detroit News

We Detroiters have a choice. We can continue to point fingers, cry in our soup, and long for the days gone by. Or we can do something about it. We can own it, fix it, and rebuild it.

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City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin?

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Restoration, Modernism, Urban Revitalization, Urban Planning, Minneapolis, Target Corp, Design, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, High Line, Arts News

Excitement has turned to disappointment in Minneapolis, and what's happening there should be a warning about safeguarding transparency in public process and civic debate.

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ArtPlace Could Make the Difference In Communities Across America

John M. Eger | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Downtown, Creativity, Art, Urban Revitalization, Community, Innovation, Real Estate, Job Creation, Culture, Arts News

Rocco Landsman, Chair of the NEA, has put together a national organization dedicated to building creative places in cities around the country, demonstrating the vital link between the arts and economic development.

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The City of the Future Is Already Here

Terry Tamminen | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Eco-City, Solar, Urban Revitalization, Climate Change, Green, Environment, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Sustainable, Green News

Get the full picture of what life could be like in a clean, sustainable city of the future -- and of the business opportunities that are hidden within.

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A Decade Later "New Markets" Continues to Build Opportunity in an America Left Behind

Michael A. Siegel | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Rural Communities, Bill Clinton, Tax Credits, New Markets, Urban Revitalization, Economy, Treasury Department, Private Investment, Jobs, Rural Development, The New Markets Tax Credit Coalition, Business News

"New Markets" encourages private investments from corporations and individuals who might never consider buying into "high-risk areas." The cost to taxpayers have created nearly 500,000 jobs at a cost of less than $12,000 each.

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Newark Man Launches Community Project To Restore Blighted Neighborhood

The Star-Ledger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Visions, Uriel Burwell, Urban-Blight, Newark, Urban Revitalization, Impact News

NEWARK -- The empty lots Uriel Burwell skipped through as a kid were nothing more than shortcuts from Newark to Irvington. When he graduated from col...

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Josh McManus And Helen Davis Johnson, Founders Of CreateHere

The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh McManus, Chattanooga, Urban Revitalization, Tennessee, Helen Davis Johnson, Greatest Person of the Day, Createhere, Video, Impact News

Today we're featuring Josh McManus and Helen Davis Johnson, founders of CreateHere. Josh and Helen started CreateHere in their hometown of Chattanooga...

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Phillip Cooley, Male Model Turned Detroit Revitalization Advocate

The Huffington Post | Jeesoo Park | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detroit, Philip Cooley, Greatest Person of the Day, Detroit-Michigan, Michigan, M, Urban Revitalization, Slideshow, Video, Impact News

Every day on HuffPost, we're highlighting one 'Greatest Person'- an exceptional individual who is confronting the country's economic and political cri...

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Modernism, Fresno and the Future of a City's Heart

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pedestrian Malls, Modernism, Modernist Landscape Architecture, Urban Revitalization, Urban Planning, Fresno, Architecture, Retail, Malls, Fulton Mall, Garrett Eckbo, Arts News

The face of US post-war urban planning was irrevocably changed with the opening of Fresno, California's Fulton Mall, in 1964.

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