Rust Belt Cities

Richey Piiparinen says that in one obvious way, gentrification isn't a problem in the Rust Belt (that being housing prices, which are comfortably low pretty much everywhere). A true intermingling of racial and ethnic groups is happening, he argues.

June 27, 2012 - RustWire

Downtown Cleveland has been polished up over the past few years. David C. Barnett has the rust belt revival success story.

June 12, 2012 - NPR Morning Edition

In search of cheap rent and an urban experience with some bona fide street cred, young people are making the move out to the Rust Belt, Will Doig reports.

May 17, 2012 - Salon

Detroit native Pete Saunders makes the case that poor planning put the nail in Motown's casket.

February 25, 2012 - Urbanophile

William Bostwick explores how locally-sourced, niche product manufacturing could help the Rust Belt rise.

December 11, 2011 - Fast Company

Pittsburgh is the new poster child for recovery, the city that managed to turn around its economic struggles. Ben Schulman digs in to figure out if how the myth meets reality.

November 10, 2010 - SustainableCitiesCollective

A couple of years ago, I was listening to a friend explain why she left Rochester for Jacksonville. "I was tired of digging my car out of the snow." It occurred to me that the nexus between driving and winter weather may at least partially explain the decline of America’s northern Rust Belt. Here’s why: car care and storage makes snow a bigger bother than might otherwise be the case: if you don’t have a heated garage, you have to dig your car out of the snow every day, and if you park on the street you may have to constantly move your car to accommodate municipal snow removal.

September 3, 2010 - Michael Lewyn

After decades of decline in their populations, young creative types are fueling the rebirth of Rust Belt cities.

August 17, 2010 - The New York Times