GUEST ARTICLE: Creating a revitalizing public gathering place in tough fiscal times Connecticut invests $15 million to revitalize pier & repurpose it for offshore wind energy Locally-extinct butterfly is restored to England after 40-year absence London mayor funds six new projects to restore rivers, parks & green infrastructure UNDP launches program to help impoverished Indonesian farmers adapt to climate change Regeneration plan for a declining Scottish fishing town is touted as a national model Human beavers restore New Mexico landscape so wildlife and real beavers can return Philadelphia to restore region’s water with world’s first city-owned mussel hatchery Adaptive reuse of Berlin’s huge, defunct airport serves social & humanitarian needs The £1 billion transit-oriented, mixed-use revitalization of London’s Tottenham area Aliens stealing Cape Town water! Government commitment to ecological restoration urged. Creation of $2.6 billion in brownfields-based community revitalization is OK’d in Michigan Kresge Foundation’s leading-edge strategy focuses on inclusive urban resilience How would the next generation of land banks evolve to better-redevelop brownfields? Ireland puts €4 billion into urban and rural revitalization, climate resilience & innovation New mapping project will improve climate resilience planning throughout Caribbean Rochester, NY revitalizes a badly-planned urban highway corridor; wins award Non-profit program helps young people learn to restore automotive heritage for a living Historic, long-vacant 1883 Pennsylvania silk mill to be repurposed as affordable housing Three cities win $70,000 each for successful revitalization work that engaged the public Two Chicago neighborhoods accepted into new “UrbanMain” revitalization program Tools of destruction can also restore when in the right hands, on the right project Six more historic and infill buildings join the tsunami of downtown Detroit revitalization In Grand Rapids, a historic museum building is reborn as a state-of-the-art high school After 50 years of healthy economic growth, Singapore envisions resilient prosperity An opportunity finally emerges to reforest North Korea’s devastated landscape Six historic downtowns win revitalization grants from Main Street America partnership A grand, green plan to revitalize Fier, Albania by reconnecting the city center to its river Downtown Akron, Ohio revitalization takes a step forward with marketplace expansion UK university creates a National Brownfield Institute in a £100 million brownfield project Rancher shifts from fracking to ecological restoration; now helps revitalize downtown How Muslim immigrants are revitalizing Russia’s dying rural communities Costa Rica’s “transformational travel” revitalizes visitors and visited alike Dead for 20 years, waterfront Navy site gets $1 billion mixed-use, transit-oriented rebirth Howard University’s redevelopment of two vacant, historic DC buildings makes progress Bristol, UK focuses their urban regeneration strategy on restoring green infrastructure
