Guest Article: Re-engineering a road to revitalize Cumberland, Georgia Brazil, Panama and Costa Rica breath new life into their degraded landscapes Revitalizing Nigeria’s economy and food systems by empowering its young women Illinois suburb turns 16 acres of failure into the downtown they’ve wanted for 124 years A 3-year, £19 million restoration revives Halifax, England’s “best-kept secret” Landscape elevators help reconnect and revitalize hilly neighborhoods Growing Hope: 4000 miles of environmental restoration and regenerative agriculture Music of Renewal: A revitalizing entrepreneur turns historic Detroit buildings into guitars Restaurants become powerful neighborhood revitalizers as retailing moves online The role of public libraries in revitalizing and sustaining communities worldwide 4 years after Hurricane Sandy, Hunts Point Resiliency planning receives public input A revitalizing war on blight & contamination comes to the beaches of Dunkirk (New York) Haribon Foundation restores Philippine tree farms into resilient native forests Built in 1936, Boston public housing to be revitalized as transit-oriented mixed-income Celebrating–and criticizing–30 years of waterfront regeneration in Cardiff, Wales Chicago program renovates blight while giving at-risk youth homes, jobs & skills Historic waterfront market repurposes a lifeless parking lot as vibrant public space Malawi leads the way in Africa’s grand strategy to reforest the continent The growing global revitalization and use of Mexico’s ancient languages Denver needs more community land trusts to stop displacement from redevelopment Abandoned plantations offer opportunities to restore and reconnect tropical forests Regenerative agriculture trend restores the world’s water, climate and cornucopia Entrepreneurs operating on contaminated sites are displaced when cleanup time arrives Hot, dry Madrid, Spain is restoring their local climate with cool, green landscaping $4.4 million in ecological, watershed and agricultural restoration coming to estuary Egyptian government funds $2.2 million restoration of Alexandria’s Jewish Temple An apple a day to keep economic blight away: A neighborhood orchard arises in Flint, MI The restored, reconnected, revitalized future of Memphis’ old industrial riverfront Historic building repurposed as a brewery revitalizes downtown Anaconda, Montana Revitalization of south downtown Atlanta is based on historic reuse, arts and walkability Downtown Cardiff, Wales is eating and redeveloping its way to revitalization Evening cricket choruses are being restored after long absence across south of England Transit-Oriented Olympics: Los Angeles learns from Mexico City, and goes it one better American architects win competition to renovate and reconnect park in Edinburgh Kelsey Grammer hopes beer will revitalize his “favorite place in the world” In London, BDP will design the historic Palace of Westminster’s long-overdue restoration Sustainable redesign & regeneration coming to historic canal-side area of central Paris $380 million reuse project uses new technology to restore historic Dallas tower Philadelphia is capping another dumb urban highway to reconnect downtown to river New technology turns damaged sites—such as the world’s worst dam–into clean energy 40-year renovation of Pierre du Pont’s historic Longwood Gardens is well underway Fashion collaborative in Rio uses repurposed containers in a repurposed warehouse A bold new vision to restore the Ganga’s health, and India’s historic connections to it Repurposing For Peace: This renovation of a historic Italian fort is part of a global trend California ghost town is being repurposed for tourism to achieve a new economic high
