Chicago-bashing aside, if Shteir were familiar with urban issues, she would know that some of the most innovative neighborhood revitalization work these days is occurring in Detroit.
A former president of Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, he helped jump-start the area's revitalization, working with the city to build more than 1,000 units of housing in the Bradhurst section.
This new nonprofit served as the quarterback to assure that the revitalization work was accomplished in a coordinated, comprehensive way and at very high standards.
Once the revitalization work is concluded, concerned communities will receive treatment, medicines, and therapeutic food.
There is renewed optimism for the river with a new agency, The Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation, working under the guidance of the Master Plan to bring back our river as a vital link through all Los Angeles with complementary businesses, recreation and parks that include natural flood control measures.
Some buildings have been repurposed as event and performance spaces, auditoriums, cinemas, with plans for more revitalization in the works.
To bring everyone together to close the event and show how my organization the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation is working to revitalize the LA River and its surrounding communities.
I would guess that any number of cities have tried celebrating a local food specialty as a tonic for a lagging downtown, just after it became obvious that doing some prettying up on a block or two that's been closed to traffic — what I've always thought of as the hanging-basket approach to downtown revitalization — didn't work.
In April Ford told analysts that his revitalization plan was working but just needed to be accelerated.
Although frequently relegated to an art form of strictly decorative purposes, taxidermy is finding a conceptual revitalization through the work of Kimberly Witham.
