Cincinnati 360 - One Model for Long-Term Metropolitan Visioning

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GLUE and Shrinking Cities, by Seth Beattie, Cleveland, OH

Across the globe, cities are shrinking. While we tend to concentrate on cities that are growing, and equate population decline with city failure, this is not necessarily the case. A city that is shrinking is not necessarily getting worse; the only thing we can say for sure is that it’s getting smaller. And while getting [...]

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Preservation is Key to Revitalization, by Randy Vines, St Louis, MO

As we look around our aging cities, it is not difficult to see what has been lost in wake of the mass exodus to the suburbs over the past 60 years.  Gazing down major urban corridors, it is not hard to imagine the hustle and bustle that once filled the same streets. Crowds of pedestrians [...]

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On What We Share

Last week, about 50 GLUE team members met off-line in Buffalo to talk about - oh, everything urban Great Lakes. Here’s what Ryan Horton, of Milwaukee, had to say about it. We can’t help but get fired up by what he thinks are the real (hyper-motivated) assets of each of our cities.

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Taking Back Our Streets, by Evelyn A.L. Burnett, Youngstown, OH

On Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Carol Crawford, 46, her daughter Jennifer R. Crawford, 23, and Jennifer’s four children, Raneija, 8, Jeannine, 5, Aleisha, 3, and Brandon, 2 were killed in a deadly house fire on the Eastside of Youngstown, Ohio. Fire Chief John J. O’Neill Jr. said the victims were found throughout the house. [...]

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‘Shrinking’ Gracefully, by Anthony Armstrong, Buffalo, NY

It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Buffalo, NY that the city has lost 300,000 residents since 1950. With a population of less than half of its peak, the city has been left with a tremendous oversupply of housing units and, with it, a large-scale vacancy and abandonment problem. From [...]

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Columbus Needs a Streetcar, by Robbie Banks, Columbus, OH

Columbus demands an alternative mass transit system. Downtown parking is an issue. Gas prices are at an all-time high. An environmentally-beneficial streetcar system is exactly what Columbus needs to provide connectivity, spur economic development, encourage a pedestrian-friend downtown and enhance downtown as a sense of place.
The Columbus Streetcar will essentially be a monorail on the [...]

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