Being here in Paris at the moment, this isn't so much of an issue obviously... But for some of the discussions I've seen on SSP re Winnipeg, this is an interesting segment about 'successful cities' in the US, e.g.
"You can pick out the local patriots.
Known community figures that are publicly invested in a town or city can make all the difference, Jim says.
“We would go into some town and start asking a newspaper editor or a high school principal, ‘Who makes this town go?’” he says. “If there were names that immediately came to mind of people who were philanthropists, high school teachers, or developers who had taken a big stake in making the downtown function, it was sign that people knew … who felt responsible for the welfare of that place.”
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They have a downtown.
“After the Civil War and through the 1920s and 1930s, America built a tremendous amount of classic, main street downtown,” says Jim. “Some of it was bulldozed in the ‘50s and ‘60s, but a lot of it is still there. The towns that seem to be working best are places that are restoring this, and that’s a big thing.”
The successful cities that Jim and Deborah visited were pouring resources into their downtown areas to attract young workers and families, who are moving to cities in droves. Some 2,000 communities have seen downtown revitalization thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Jim has reported.
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