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Posted Aug 30, 2019, 7:14 PM
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Whatever the Rust Belt is, Baltimore has always been part of it.
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Millennials Bring New Life to Some Rust Belt Cities
BALTIMORE — Educated millennials are transforming some neighborhoods in several Rust Belt cities like this one, where old flour and textile mills are being converted to apartments and faded industrial districts have become thriving enclaves with colorful street life.
Staci Knobel, 28, recently moved to the once blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood of Hampden with college friends after finding herself “bored, depressed” in upstate New York. Here, she said, she has found excitement in the city’s electronic music scene and computer gaming conventions.
“I love the city, I’ve made friends and explored. It’s affordable and hip,” Knobel said.
Baltimore — along with Buffalo, New York; Chicago; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Pittsburgh and St. Louis — is experiencing some of the biggest increases in the number of young college graduates among large cities. They are hoping this wave of young people, often drawn by industries that require an educated workforce, will offset broader population declines and reinvigorate their economies.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/researc...st-belt-cities
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Redefining Rust Belt Conference
Redefining “Rust Belt”: An Exchange of Strategies by the Cities of Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia
The first videoconference, held June 18, aimed to survey the landscape of current urban redevelopment strategies and identify areas of shared interest among community leaders from the four cities. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake spoke about her city’s initiative to increase its population by 10,000 residents by 2020, citing several critical collaborative efforts that have moved the city closer to its goal. In his remarks, keynote speaker Jeremy Nowak outlined specific challenges facing older industrial regions, as well as areas of opportunity. The agenda provides details of the initial videoconference, which connected leaders gathered at all four sites. This summary document captures key themes that arose from the discussions among participants; these themes will drive the agendas of subsequent events in the series.
https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroo...he-cities.aspx
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The Rust Belt Theory of Low-Cost High Culture
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What gives? Call it the Rust Belt theory of low-cost high culture. Baltimore is one of a handful of cities where the economic might and urban scale of a bygone era (Baltimore was the sixth-largest city in the country as recently as 1960) created both premier cultural institutions and a foundation of local wealth—aka old money—that, however dissipated by time, lingers to this day and continues to provide support for the institutions. At the same time, however, these cities’ decline in population and prominence has left these institutions perpetually on the hunt for new patrons.
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https://slate.com/culture/2015/01/ch...ze-cities.html
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The Rust Belt Has Arrived
Interest in cities that have fallen on hard times in the Midwest and Northeast brings new cachet to living and working in the Rust Belt.
Step aside Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. Sorry, but you’re just not cool anymore. These days, you need to have crumbling roads, triple-decker apartment buildings, old-fashioned neighborhood bars and lots of rust to gain any hipster cred. When Anthony Bourdain, host of the trendy travel and food show No Reservations, passes up Tuscany, Provence and Barcelona to visit Baltimore, Buffalo and Detroit, you know the Rust Belt has arrived.
The "rust is chic" movement has been around for a while, but thanks to blogs and online magazines, such as RustWire.com, a certain fascination with places that have fallen on hard times like the Rust Belt -- which stretches from the Midwest through the mid-Atlantic and up into the Northeast -- has taken hold. Part of it is the scruffy, industrial look. It may also be a rejection of cities with gleaming condo towers, bistros and boutiques that were once so trendy yet now seem so frothy and fake in the wake of the economic meltdown.
https://www.governing.com/columns/ur...t-Arrived.html
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What Is The Rust Belt?
One of the major cities in the Rust Belt is Chicago, Illinois. The city's close proximity to the American west, the Mississippi River, and Lake Michigan meant that the movement of people, products, and raw materials was easy. This led to the city becoming known as a major transportation center in the 20th century. Chicago mainly specialized in the production of cattle, lumber, and wheat products. A canal was later constructed in 1848 to connect the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Chicago grew to be one of the biggest railroad centers in North America and serves as a manufacturing center for freight and passenger railroad cars. Baltimore, Maryland is another major city in the Rust Belt region. It is located on the eastern shores of Chesapeake Bay. Maryland has the availability of rivers and inlets connecting to Chesapeake Bay. Having the longest waterfront, Maryland was significant in the production of metals and transportation equipment, such as ships. Other major cities in the rustbelt region include Buffalo, NY, Detroit, MI, and St. Louis, MO.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...rust-belt.html
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Revitalizing Baltimore through immigration
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In Rust Belt communities such as Baltimore, immigration has slowed — and in some cases reversed — decades of population loss. In July 2012, after 60 years of population decline, the Census Bureau reported an increase in Baltimore's population. The increase was attributed in part to growing international migration.
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion...226-story.html
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