This may come as news to some that graffiti kings like Crash and Daze were called upon to do community revitalization in the same borough where leaders once reviled their painting style.
THE violence, property damage, intimidation of innocent bystanders and the obvious inability of Atlantic City officials to cope effectively with the recent strike by hotel-casino employees should cause every legislator to reflect again upon the original promise of urban revitalization when casinos were first authorized for that city.
My first thesis is for the College Scholar's major and touches upon issues of linguistic purism in language revitalization.
But another massive revitalization project under way centers upon improving two bridges - between education to employment and high school to college.
If Congress and the president are willing to try to pass tax reform, infrastructure revitalization and other broadly agreed upon but large initiatives, we must give them our support.
It also allowed for the revitalization of a moribund film industry that once upon a time, in the silent 1920's, had been the most radical in the world, a resurgence demonstrated by the 25 hugely variegated features, known and unknown, in The Film Society of Lincoln Center series "Revolution in the Revolution" at the Walter Reade Theater through Nov. 30.
"Making a Difference" calls for the university to build upon the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership; work with local leaders on the revitalization of downtown Durham, West Main Street, and Ninth Street; expand collaboration with North Carolina Central University and Durham Technical Community College; and transform Central Campus.
The final project for this course is the revitalization of a "failed" ad campaign--students must present their new revitalized concept ads (targeting two audiences) in a final slideshow presentation, drawing upon market research of industry, company, and consumer groups.
Joe Schilling, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, describes the pop-up retail trend as part of a broader global "'tactical urbanism" movement, in which citizens are taking it upon themselves to make improvements to their neighborhoods that in turn spur on urban revitalization.
The park, once decrepit, is already considered a major success story of urban revitalization, having helped draw new housing, glittering stores and restaurants, and thousands upon thousands of visitors to what was, little more than a decade ago, a dowdy factory and retailing area.
