Historic Fabric in the City’s Quilt

From Randy Vines in St. Louis:
St. Louis GLUEster Michael Allen was interviewed recently on KWMU’s (local NPR affiliate) “St. Louis on the Air” about the importance of preserving our built environment.  In an age of soulless suburban sprawl, our city’s historic fabric has become its leading competitive advantage.  Listen here.

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GLUE on Detroit Today

When I first moved back to the Detroit area, I asked people how to best get reacquainted with my hometown, and a number of them told me to listen to Detroit Today on Detroit Public Radio - which I have been doing ever since.  It’s become one of my favorite radio shows, and is an incredible resource for Detroiters.  [...]

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Sticky Results, Unfiltered, #2

Detroit
Below are the remaining Sticky Meeting results, again, unfiltered, from those meetings held on Thursday, April 10. (Duluth had to cancel due to a blizzard warning, sadly – I guess we’re not the same in EVERY way).
Detroit Brainstorm + Reply from Toledo, 4.10.08

Cleveland Brainstorm + Reply from Detroit, 4.10.08

St Louis Brainstorm + Reply [...]

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Recycling Is On Fire in Detroit!

Margaret Weber has been a coordinator of a Detroit local drop-off recycling facility for 18 years. She and other Detroit-area environmentalists and activists, including members of the Sierra Club, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, Rosedale Recycles, and Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, have recently formed the Coalition for a Clean and Green Detroit (which is new [...]

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Chris Briem and Richard Florida

Chris Briem, one of the Pittsburgh area’s most beloved bloggers, brought my attention to a Richard Florida piece in the April 12th edition of The Wall Street Journal.
The money quote?
The real driving force of the world economy is a new and incredibly powerful economic unit: the mega-region.
And where do we line up?
The world’s largest mega [...]

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Good for you, and you, and you…

We’ve previously talked about the clear economic benefits of Great Lakes restoration. The Brookings Institution’s Healthy Waters, Healthy Economy report demonstrates that implementing the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy would, with an investment of $26 billion, create between $80 and $100 billion worth of benefits. But while this report made a convincing argument that [...]

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Buffalonians, Come Home!

From Ann Mestrovich in Buffalo:
From June 24th through June 27th, thousands of Buffalo natives and anyone interested in experiencing the Queen City at its best will come “home” to rediscover what makes this city so great. This event was started in 2006 by a grassroots group of volunteers looking to celebrate the city and [...]

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PGH and DET, On a Spectrum

As you surely know if you’ve read What is GLUE?, this project came about after Abby and I moved back to our hometowns, Pittsburgh and Detroit, respectively, within six months of each other.  We started talking – a lot – about the similarities we were finding.  As a metro-Detroiter, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be great [...]

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Sticky People at Work

Indy

Milwaukee

Cleveland

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Sticky Results, Unfiltered, #1

Last week, GLUE held its first-ever, region-wide local brainstorming sessions. At these Sticky City Meetings, participants in each city listed their homes’ greatest challenges and most promising ideas or valuable assets. After each city finished its brainstorm, participants’ notes were sent to another GL city, who responded to the similarities, differences, and with [...]

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I’m stickier than I was yesterday… But not as much as tomorrow!

Last night GLUE held its first set of Sticky City Round-Ups. Based on the initial feedback we received, this conversation was long overdue. To those of you who weren’t able to make it, fear not. It’s only the beginning.
I would of course be remiss if I didn’t extend a loud, bloggy thank you [...]

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Can (insert your city’s name here) Ever Come Back? By Anthony Armstrong, Buffalo, NY

On Friday, April 18th, noted Harvard Economics Professor Edward Glaeser will be in Buffalo as part of a panel to discuss his take on Buffalo and what can/should be done with our city (Resurrecting Buffalo). If you haven’t heard about Glaeser before, well then he probably hasn’t written a controversial article about the fate [...]

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What would you ask a candidate?

If you had ten minutes with the presidential candidates, what Great Lakes Region specific question would you ask them?  Do you want to know how they’d fund Great Lakes restoration, and on what timeline?  Or how they plan to turn our urban schools around?  Will they prioritize urban infrastructure repair?  Would they incentivize the creation [...]

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