This Metropolis article on bringing design and urbanism excellence to Syracuse is enough to make me feel that more New York transplants should return to the Rust Belt cities from where they came, and apply there all the energy and ideas that they've accumulated.
11.18.2010
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Posted by Shin-pei at 9:49 AM
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Immigrants should go back where they came from? Making that argument is a bit like rollerskating at the top of the stairs - be careful, you could end up in an unpleasant place.
Hardly! This isn't about immigration - transplant doesn't mean immigrant. So many New Yorkers "escape" these Rust Belt cities - thus the depopulation. I like the idea of returning to those places and spreading the wealth of ideas and energy about making those places better. Where I come from, people bemoan that nothing is happening - a complete misperception. The truth is that you can make things happen.
Are you aware of the Great Lakes Urban Exchange? Its founders left New York to return to their homes in Detroit and Pittsburgh.
Very cool! I have heard of Brookings Great Lakes Economic Initiative - glad to see that these two are connected.
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