Is this a "golden moment" for cities like Detroit?
There's a conscious reason the national group CEOs for Cities, which has celebrated urban growth since 2001, chose Detroit for this year's annual conference (and got schooled on Tech Town, the Detroit Declaration and more). A new article from Citiwire.net says it's the growing appreciation for cities' inherent resources that makes now, not the future, the time to capitalize on building our nation's cities of tomorrow.The article also illustrated a few comparisons between Detroit and Atlanta, which has experienced steady revitalization in the past decade.
Excerpt:
The Detroit initiatives that may seem "against all odds" do in fact
mirror trends working for American cities. Reports are multiplying of a
growing cohort of talented young people, many of them college
graduates, drawn to cities by their dynamism and excitement ... Then there's a clear trend, notes Carol Coletta, president of CEOs
for Cities: recognizing, then exploiting, cities' sometimes hidden
assets. A prime example is the Atlanta Beltline, a year a forlorn and
abandoned 22-mile loop of rail lines now being made into a linear park
of 1,200 landscaped acres with recouped industrial sites and transit
service for 45 neighborhoods.
Read it here.
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