Brockton MA trumpets its downtown revival
Take a drive down Main Street at sunset and it becomes clear why Brockton, Massachusetts wants to revitalize its downtown. The street is poorly…
Issue #2: May 1, 2015
China invents a new kind of ghost town
Ghost towns tend to start as boomtowns, and contemporary China more than likely has more boomtowns than any other country in history. No economy…
Restoring streetcars to Memphis…soon?
Galveston, Texas isn’t the only city that’s suffered delays in restoring heritage streetcar service in the wake of a disaster. Memphis, Tennessee, the Mississippi…
From steelmaking to mealmaking in Newark, NJ
A $30 million project is about to turn a defunct Newark, NJ steel factory into the world’s largest indoor farm. It will grow produce…
Duplicating Cleveland’s revitalizing co-ops
Rochester NY is hoping to duplicate the success of Cleveland’s famous co-ops, which have helped revitalize the downtown in a way that creates equitably-distributed…