Leaders from post-industrial Europe offer redevelopment ideas for Detroit at seminar in TechTown.
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The keynote speaker at the seminar will be Valentino Castellani, a
former physics professor who helped lead a regional turnaround as mayor
of Turin from 1993 to 2001, Pope said.
The city forged
cooperative agreements with 35 surrounding municipalities in the
Piedmont region, and now, the Turin area has become a high-tech hub
with emerging filmmaking and tourism sectors. It received a big boost
in 2006, when Turin hosted the
Winter Olympic Games.
Though there are strong parallels between Detroit and Turin, Detroit will need to find its own solutions, Pope said.
She
said economic redevelopment efforts in Turin have been successful
because the city has focused on finding its unique comparative
advantage.
"We're not saying that they have the exact answer -- and that it's directly importable to Detroit, or Cleveland, or any
older industrial city in the U.S -- but the way they've approached their
economic development strategy, digging themselves out of the holes they
were in, provides some food for thought," Pope said.
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