Issue #49

News


GUEST ARTICLE – Plywood Plague Cure: How to reduce “blighting effect” of vacant buildings

Apalachicola, FL wants to boost affordable housing by restoring historic homes

Minnesota grouse travel to restored habitat in Wisconsin to revitalize local population

Riverfront park is key to Glasgow, Scotland’s being reborn as the next great world city

The surprising renaissance of Boston’s dangerous downtown “Combat Zone”

Parisian architect uses parasites to beautify, green & renew ugly, inefficient old buildings

Native New Zealand robin reintroduced as part of $24 million ecological restoration

A non-profit and a water utility partner to restore a Santa Rosa, California wetland

A green, people-centric, 40-acre, $3.5 billion heart for car-choked downtown Bangkok

Private landowners see “a future for America” in wildlife habitat restoration

Mexico City will be World Design Capital in 2018, to honor innovative redevelopment

1100-acre West Virginia brownfield will come back to life thanks to Canadian firm

Ironic Reuse: Aristocrat’s mansion is repurposed as affordable housing in Bronx

Fearing another rip-off, St. Louis votes for smart, revitalizing transit over new stadium

$88.1 million renovation and redevelopment coming to Melbourne’s historic State Library

The Great Canadian Butterflyway Project aims to restore pollinators nationwide

Regeneration of a distillery’s brownfield in Glasgow will be powered by a “wind forest”

Sydney waterfront redevelopment is transit-oriented, carbon-neutral and water-positive

Telluride’s historic sandstone warehouse to be restored and repurposed as arts center

Durham non-profit creates revitalization without gentrification via creative reuse

27-year-old British woman turns brownfield in an empty reservoir into thriving eco-lodge

How to turn neighborhoods into local hubs of resilience during tough political times

Kenya to restore an area the size of Denmark to boost agricultural productivity

Waldorf Astoria New York announces team for $1 billion restoration and revitalization

37 acres of failed aquaculture ponds turned into mangrove park, restoring local fishery

Florida county boasts a Neighborhood Preservation and Revitalization Division

Non-profit funds $15 million transformation of downtown Dallas parking lot into park

BC community land trust boosts local socio-economic resilience via affordable housing

Perth revitalizes a street by greening it, and by repurposing a car lane for pedestrians

Istanbul’s design for new park uses nature conservation to enhance urban revitalization

Revitalization advances for 14 underutilized riverfront acres in downtown Philadelphia

Bon Secours renovates vacant buildings and helps revitalize “The Wire” neighborhood

In 10 years, light rail has drawn $billions in redevelopment to Charlotte neighborhoods

A new rewilding coalition aims to strengthen ecological restoration throughout Europe

Firm repurposes another historic Pittsburgh building after 1st factory-to-lofts success

70-acre, $132M park to revitalize downtown Oklahoma City and reconnect it to river

Business incubator is renovating and reusing historic building to revitalize Flint, Michigan

Vermont dairy entrepreneurs repurpose and restore historic barns to revitalize economy

A new breed of English churchgoer finds salvation in local urban regeneration

Philadelphia Museum of Art launches $525 million renovation & redesign by Frank Gehry

250-acre agricultural district revitalizes downtown Shanghai & reconnects it to river

Ecological restoration of Lehua Is., Hawai‘i to proceed with eradication of invasive rats

Shanghai historic area to be revitalized via mixed-use redevelopment of vacant 12 acres

Nova Scotia gives Lunenburg twice the $$$ it asked for to restore historic academy

$120 million revitalization of neighborhoods near Montreal’s Jacques-Cartier Bridge