GUEST ARTICLE: Greening and revitalizing our neighborhoods to create places that beautifully connect people to nature This iconic fossil fuel monster, made famous by Pink Floyd, has been reborn as a green, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood Detroit celebrates future revitalization, joining trend of dismantling a devitalizing, badly-planned, racist urban highway In the drought-stricken American southwest, university partners win $6 million to boost climate resilience for ranchers and tribes This Mexican group’s successful ecological restoration of Baja California islands is benefiting all three North American nations Seattle wins an international award for its work to create equitable, inclusive climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience Three arts-related heritage restoration projects receive $6.5 million to help revitalize historic downtowns in Colorado In a model for disaster-prone states, cities in four areas of New Jersey collaborate to publish regional climate resilience plans This Detroit revitalization group helps create green, equitable, healthy neighborhoods with a high quality of life for all Restoration Economy: American architects catch up with older nations, with over half of work now renovating existing buildings Washington, DC Metro Area Transit launches first major redesign in 50 years to revitalize bus service, and it’s customer-driven Entrepreneurs celebrate college & state DOT partnership to help revitalize downtown via $11.2 million in infrastructure renovation Kentucky wins $74 million to create good restoration economy jobs on mined & drilled lands, catalyzing economic revitalization Nevada wins $2,150,000 to clean up legacy pollution and restore damage left behind by mining, ranching and other industries Restoration Economy: As cities seek climate resilience, Wall Street catches on to the global explosion of green infrastructure This former Brooklyn torpedo factory is helping to revitalize a historic district as a new public library, apartments and retail A car-centric downtown shopping mall that obstructed vitality for half a century has been greened, re-socialized and revitalized University of Tennessee alums win cash prize for revitalizing Knoxville’s economy with innovative environmental tech start-up These redevelopment projects just won $72 million from Maryland’s six state-level historic downtown revitalization programs Jersey City’s waterfront revitalization advances as first new building wins approval of “impossible” 35% affordable housing Revitalization of downtown Jersey City advances as rehabilitation of Loew’s Theatre wins $42.27 million in historic tax credits Neighborhood revitalization in NYC advances as reuse of one blighted site into affordable housing begins, while another is completed A model for all U.S. states? New Jersey program supports economic recovery in urban areas with mass transit hurt by COVID 36 underserved Maryland communities plant 40,000 trees to revive quality of life, reduce urban heat islands and boost resilience In Appalachia, mining communities damaged by reduced coal usage win record amounts of federal economic revitalization funding Renovating our automobile infrastructure won’t restore our climate: A gondola is proposed for Los Angeles baseball fans New York’s Great Lakes Action Agenda 2022-2030 focuses on ecosystem restoration-based community resilience strategies Community leaders celebrate $85 million renovation of 391-unit, 21.5 acre affordable housing complex in Camden, New Jersey This small Connecticut city just won $650,000 to revitalize their economy by cleaning and reusing a huge, historic mill Here are five restorative, resilient ways we can more effectively adapt to the climate crisis at the national level
