GUEST ARTICLE: Indiana town’s renaissance is built on art, brownfields and old buildings With renting the new norm, affordable housing is crucial to urban revitalization Historic Swedish gas tanks to be repurposed as transit-oriented urban ecopark residences Annapolis publishes “story map” to boost climate resilience of historic downtown Old Providence steel factory repurposed to manufacture arts & skilled young workforce To boost innovation, businesses are moving to revitalizing cities with good transit Riverfront oil refinery & historic building to be reborn as town center in Great Falls, MT How demolished buildings help restore and revitalize a historic Alabama downtown $168 million in brownfields redevelopment & urban revitalization launched in Michigan 14 Michigan cities get $23.2 million to restore the Great Lakes by renovating sewer systems Historic Los Angeles office buildings refill with tenants after decades of abandonment Olean, New York to accelerate its walkable downtown revitalization via $10 million prize Young environmentalists pursue affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization Sloppy use of the word “blight” can sabotage the revitalized future of a neighborhood Boston plans to revitalize an old industrial canal and make it more climate-resilient World’s largest forest restoration coming to Brazil: 73 million Amazon trees by 2023 Ontario turns a sad waterfront parking lot into a happy park and a beautiful trail New research to boost quality of life via greener, smarter, more-connected cities Scientists succeed in transplanting coral to restore Australia’s dying Great Barrier Reef 15 years later, reintroduction of bighorn sheep continues in Montana and Idaho Connecticut passes new law to accelerate beer-powered rural economic revitalization Regenerative Ag + Forest Restoration: The two best carbon sequestration technologies New Jersey schoolkids learn about restoring oysters to revitalize their coast Sydney’s spectacular new Barangaroo waterfront park wins architecture prize Metheun, MA wants to revitalize downtown by repurposing older buildings as housing Romantic Dana Point, California launches long-awaited harbor revitalization project Fiji issues a $50 million green bond for climate change adaptation and mitigation Jamaica launches new website to boost climate resilience, adaptation and fisheries Boosting land restoration and renewable energy along Africa’s Great Green Wall Rodale Institute and Patagonia partner to set new standard for regenerative agriculture New $5 million initiative to promote inclusive, equitable revitalization in Detroit, Michigan A grand plan to regenerate 4500 waterfront acres, plus a 170-year old UK steelmaking site Historic Marseille building is repurposed as retail, with wabi-sabi decrepitude on display £200M regeneration to create 7600 transit-oriented homes on 120-acre UK brownfield The magnificent 1898 post office of Ghent, Belgium is repurposed as a luxury hotel Is repurposing publicly-owned land a key to solving the affordable housing crisis? How Palm Beach County, Florida restored wildlife habitat and boosted quality of life
