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Urban Revitalization
By Olga Bonfiglio [Olga Bonfiglio]
Published articles on Urban Revitalization
Articles under this topic: 8
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Whenever most planners see an open field in a city, their first impulse is to regard it as vacant land with potential for economic development. But that reaction may need to change because many of today’s vacant lands are still part of the city. Detroit is plowing resources into its extensive stretches of vacant land.
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Published: Aug-07-2009 | Times read: 336 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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Urban farming may seem an unusual career goal for a young man of the twenty-first century, let alone one from Birmingham, an upscale middle class suburb of Detroit. It’s also counter-intuitive that a major university located in the middle of the cultural center could offer Howe a means to his aspirations.
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Published: Aug-07-2009 | Times read: 151 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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Some economic development experts say growing, distributing and selling food locally and regionally has the potential to create jobs, inspire entrepreneurship, keep needed dollars in the community and contribute to the sustainability of the region's economy.
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Published: Feb-07-2009 | Times read: 311 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes the vision and determination of its residents to make that village. Residents in Kalamazoo's neighborhoods are working hard to make life safe, enjoyable and beautiful for all -- and they are doing it through their own initiative, as Jay Walljasper suggests in his book, "The Great Neighborhood Book."
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Published: Aug-01-2007 | Times read: 569 | Rating: 1.00 [Votes: 1] |
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Kalamazoo, the city with the funny name and the famous downtown pedestrian mall has maintained a high quality of life for over 80 years thanks to its wealthy, community-oriented corporate families. However, globalization and the recent economic downturn have presented the city with many new and difficult challenges, including the merger and subsequent buy-out of the former Upjohn Company. As community leaders have responded to these challenges, they have also formed a public-private sector partnership and developed a strategic plan that has helped direct a revitalization of the downtown.
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Published: Feb-27-2006 | Times read: 729 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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When leaders of the Archdiocese of Detroit began looking for solutions to the mounting poverty in the Detroit metropolitan area, they discovered that the traditional ministries of soup kitchens, clothing drives and holiday baskets were not changing the impoverished environment of the city. The city’s decline was more structural, institutional and political, and they realized that they were looking squarely into an injustice that had developed and permeated the community for the past 40 years—urban sprawl. The archdiocese, which serves 1.5 million Catholics in six counties of southeastern Michigan, joined a coalition of interfaith religious congregations that is working hard not only to curb and contain urban sprawl, but also to approach it as a moral issue that demands a response of justice and equality for all people living in the region.
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Published: Feb-27-2006 | Times read: 468 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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Churchgoers believe that building a mass transit system could save the Motor City. But how will they get to that promised land?
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Published: Feb-27-2006 | Times read: 473 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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The modern age has come to mean that we conduct our lives by machine. While this approach has helped to reduce backbreaking labor and to increase our leisure time, the motors that run these machines have contributed to making our neighborhoods noisy. One of the adverse effects of this noise is the frustration of not being able to escape it. Another effect is a disregard for others and their needs for a quieter environment. These effects contribute to making life in the neighborhood uncivil.
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Published: Jan-15-2006 | Times read: 457 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
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