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Building prosperity in shrinking cities: innovation, creativity, sustainabilityPosted by Ed Morrison. |
For a number of years, European city planners and economic development professionals have been grappling with the challenge of managing shrinking cities. Until recently, we in the U.S. have ignored the challenge.
In the last five years, all this is beginning to change.
A number of cities are bracing the challenge of developing prosperity, innovation and creativity in cities that are shrinking. Youngstown, Ohio represents one city that is aggressively moving in this direction and building its strategy around the notion that it will be smaller, not larger in the years ahead. Read more.
The Cleveland paper looked at Schenectady, NY as another example of a city taking the challenge of shrinkage head on. (George Robertson, an EDPro who teaches at the Economic Development Institute, was the principal architect of the Schenectady strategy. George is now in Maryland.) The article also explores strategies in other cities. Read more.
Last week, city planners in Cleveland outlined some principles for managing a smaller city. Read more.
You can browse through their report. I have attached it to the post.
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