remaking cities congress

aside 1 Nov
We Are Our Future
The story behind many established American cities remains the same: a tale of two cities is the upsetting yet reoccurring reality, as Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity, says. Industrialized cities, if examined thoroughly, portray the bustling aspect, inhabited with economically solid individuals and the contrastingly forgotten community expanding underneath the poverty line. Unfortunately, Read more [...]
aside 1 Nov
We Are Our Future
The story behind many established American cities remains the same: a tale of two cities is the upsetting yet reoccurring reality, as Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity, says. Industrialized cities, if examined thoroughly, portray the bustling aspect, inhabited with economically solid individuals and the contrastingly forgotten community expanding underneath the poverty line. Unfortunately, Read more [...]
image 1 Nov

by Cassidy McDonnell and Simran Parwani After hearing all the discussions at the Remaking Cities Congress 2013, we were curious to see if there were any plans to incorporate youth in urban planning.  To see how the experienced delegates plan to pass the torch of municipal management to the next generation, we interviewed the Mayor of Bristol, England, George Ferguson. As Mayor of Bristol, how have you invested in youth and how do you plan to continue to do so? “In Bristol, we have two youth Read more [...]
aside 30 Oct
Study Session
by Nico Chiodi “How do we build the city of the future?” This was the question that six of the delegates at the Remaking Cities Congress were tasked to answer. The delegates at the round discussion table were: Mr. Wyman WalterMr. Jeff FosterMs. Marimba MillionesMs. Margaret CowellMr. John ThompsonMr. Dennis KeatingOverseeing the group was Mr. Jim Segedy.The six delegates had been debating a little bit before I got there, and so I’m not exactly sure how it started but by the time Read more [...]
aside 26 Oct
Pittsburgh: Past and Present
by Nico Chiodi What was Pittsburgh like in 1988 when the original conference took place? How has it changed? What’s been the best change? These were the questions that were playing through my head as I walked around the 2013 Remaking Cities Congress. As I interviewed people, I paid attention to their ties to Pittsburgh so that perhaps I could gather some insight into these questions. This is what I found. My first question to all of them was: What do you think Pittsburgh’s greatest change Read more [...]
aside 21 Oct
An Interview With Toni Griffin
by Nico Chiodi“I was trained as an architect,” Ms. Toni Griffin says as soon as she’s settled herself down for an interview. She was influenced at a young age by the TV show the Brady Bunch (Mr. Brady was an architect) and a high school drafting class. The teacher of her drafting class thought she showed talent and entered her into several competitions, which she won. She goes on to explain how one of her counselors found a program at Notre Dame where high-schoolers could live on campus Read more [...]
video 19 Oct

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