GUEST ARTICLE — Restorative Tourism: How to Preserve and Revitalize the Goose that Lays the Golden Economic Egg Revitalization + Resilience + Adaptive Management = Adaptive Renewal Marsh restoration in Louisiana is surprisingly successful $1 million renovations to put a park 10 minutes from every Missoula child Community-based public-private partnerships for green infrastructure $2 billion sewage plant renovation to help restore Sacramento River How “urban acupuncture” revitalized a sickly Spanish city How boosting local creativity revitalized a struggling Australian city Edible Regeneration: Why is urban farming growing so fast worldwide? Will Baltimore see a resurgence of community development? Restore the Fog! Green redevelopment reduces cloud-killing sprawl Chicago’s Riverwalk: Now bigger, better & more revitalizing. 800 tons of oyster shells from New Orleans restaurants help restore reef Japanese villagers are restoring forest destroyed by 2011 tsunami Barcelona rejects technocratic “smart city” for inclusive regeneration BirdLife’s Pacific Island habitat restoration program Repurposing a historic mental asylum for Homeland Security HQ Green street renovations = Greater urban resilience New Jersey town turns historic farm into 136-acre public park Seattle’s plan to fix one of two major threats to its future EPA plans $14M clean up of Sherwin-Williams’ toxic legacy in 2 NJ towns Disappearing Cars: Why Toronto should demolish its waterfront highway. Pennsylvania’s massive P3 bridge replacement program launches Court says California cities can require affordable development New 5-agency “Resilient Land & Water” federal restoration partnership Cleveland gets serious about reconnecting to Lake Erie Community revitalization focuses on what’s strong, not what’s wrong How a St. Paul MN brownfield became a Field of (green) Dreams Farmers restoring biodiversity to create resilient local food systems $4 billion Dallas Midtown revitalization project approved Seoul repurposes another ugly urban highway as beautiful public space A trend towards repurposing old oil tankers as floating villages? 2-Wheeled Revitalization for Downtown Albuquerque? London’s 3 waves of revitalization: Olympic Games were 3rd wave Revitalizing cities by repurposing dead space as public space The frequent folly of retail-led community revitalization Milwaukee attracts big business to downtown, but on park land? Parks replace libraries as basic community service? New public-private model Portland OR integrates economic & environmental justice for better future Is Bridgeport’s eco-industrial park a green revitalization model? $555M requested to renew & replace Connecticut’s 19th-Century rail bridges Brooklyn’s new waterfront park held for ransom by property owner A City Feeding a City: Urban orchard bears fruit in Perth, Australia Everyone wins this urban competition: More parks = more quality of life Despite engineers’ opposition, LA getting new bridge to the future Nature’s lessons in resilience for urban catastrophe recovery Detroit’s Reinvention: Revitalize piece by piece or via grand vision? Cars losing to feet, bikes & transit in North America: Which city leads? Is the future of urban design & revitalization in green districts?
