Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley look to Akron, Turin, Bilbao and other post-industrial cities for clues to solving America’s greatest urban disaster, Detroit.
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley look to Akron, Turin, Bilbao and other post-industrial cities for clues to solving America’s greatest urban disaster, Detroit. What I found especially interesting though was the authors went beyond the typical discussion of the "Bilbao effect". They noted that in Bilbao successful regeneration wasn't simply due to a new shiny cultural building. Rather, the various government agencies and public-private partnerships focused on managing large-scale land-cleanup-and-revitalization projects. Money quote; Bilbao Ria spent 184 million euros on site cleanup; the provincial and regional governments kicked in 144 million euros--the full cost--for the Frank Gehry–designed Guggenheim museum. But the city also created a new metro system and a tram line for the revitalized waterfront. Airports, ports, and regional train systems were also modernized. And, critically, the city spent two decades and one billion euros (mostly from higher levels of government) on a new water-sanitation system to keep untreated household and industrial waste out of the river, which would make waterfront development possible. TNR via the guys at m.ammoth
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Bilbao ;)
or are you thinking of Rocky Balboa
I thought it was Ginkgo Biloba.
woops, fixed
Decent article - finally people are getting the shear size of land area issue - although I'd point out that the current land area of the city was actually planned for 10 million people, not just 2 million (which was the population in the 50s).
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