Entries tagged with Shrinking Cities
Shrinking Cities
June 22, 2009
This story keeps running so I finally have to comment. It's the story that the Obama Administration is considering backing a plan to shrink deteriorating American cities by bulldozing entire neighborhoods and returning the land to nature. The idea, which originated in Flint, Mich. -- cratered by the auto…
From a compelling article by Bruce Fisher:
"In Buffalo, City Hall says it has a plan for vacant land, and that its plan doesn’t include turning vacant lots into farms. City Hall actively opposed land-banking legislation, and got Governor Paterson to veto a land-bank bill just last year.
…Playfulness in Cities
April 5, 2009
At our recent Strategy Summit, we had a lively exchange between Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, and Tersesa Schwarz, who has done a brilliant job of reimagining Cleveland's vacant land as an asset for sustainability.
An Infrastructure Conundrum
December 27, 2008
Many of the communities with the biggest job losses are those whose populations are shrinking. The worst possible investment would be in infrastructure that fuels sprawl... putting too few people on too much land. In fact, what most of these communities need is a massive investment in people in the…
Time to Accept NOLA as Shrinking City?
November 29, 2008
Three years into the recovery from Katrina, New Orleans' population has grown only modestly and resettlement has slowed to a trickle. Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell asks, Is it time to recognize New Orleans as a shrinking city?
Russell writes, "Embracing or even accepting a downsized city can be painful for…
Remaking Shrinking Cities as Living Labs
October 1, 2008
Jim Russell over at Cleveburgh Diaspora has a great post that gives solid examples of what shrinking mid-size cities can do to reinvigorate their appeal and their fate.
Buffalo is talking about becoming a national laboratory dedicated to…