GUEST ARTICLE: How short-term placemaking revitalized Philadelphia’s University City The multiple benefits of restoring resilient blue-green infrastructure in urban areas Financial institutions partner to support downtown revitalization in Tucumcari, NM $40 million environmental, infrastructure & turtle restoration for Orange Beach, AL 2000-year-old gladiator training building in Pompeii, Italy completes 3-year restoration A non-profit is ecologically & economically revitalizing an abandoned cranberry bog These folks earn a living turning old coal-fired power plants into urban revitalization Australians win 15-year, 42-acre, $2.7 billion revitalization in downtown Birmingham, UK University of Miami engineers explore reef restoration approaches to coastal resilience Watershed coalition ecologically restores river and boosts community flood resilience Florida governor boosts state funding for Everglades restoration to record high UN Climate Resilience Initiative issues short, medium & long term action recommendations Scientists explore how to add climate change resilience to world’s 2nd-largest coral reef St. Petersburg, Florida finds a way to reduce blight while increasing affordable housing Québec communities receive $1.5 million to help green and renew their infrastructure A disaster resilience guide to help newly-elected politicians hit the ground running Dallas boosts affordable housing despite tight budget via public-private partnerships Restoration Park was a quarry and a dump. It’s now a beautiful refuge in Louisiana The creation of a 400,000-acre national park boosts Argentina’s jaguar restoration effort Wiped out from island two centuries ago by humans, Galapagos iguanas come home Restoring seagrass beds is a far more cost-effective way to restore eroded beaches Criticized for massive reef destruction, China says that coral restoration is now a mission Two revitalizing governors together restore a historic bridge shared by their states The dream of coral reef restoration comes closer to reality with publication of toolkit Another old office park in Amsterdam gets revitalized as green, mixed-use neighborhood Seattle calls in military to fight disruption of reconnecting and revitalizing waterfront Historic New Orleans church and convent have now been restored as an elegant hotel Is Detroit ignoring poorer neighborhoods, or is it smart to revitalize the city’s core first? The ambitious restoration and revitalization of historic Iloilo City in the Philippines Three years after planting, a Myanmar village celebrates restoration of their mangroves Huge brownfield redevelopment in Stamford, Connecticut hits milestone and wins award New Jersey Christmas trees are resurrected as a gift to shoreline restoration workers Are “smart city” technologies a key to achieving greater urban resilience? On a former Delaware farm, 150 volunteers plant 3000 trees for restoration research $36 million restoration of coastal wetlands is completed in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana How a village in Ghana revitalized itself in less than four years by restoring mangroves
