The Franklin Affair
Should the local press have named a suicide victim?
Possibility City
Who knew Cleveland was the place to start a movement?
When Fun Goes Bad
Balancing live, work, and play in Cleveland’s cultural districts.
Does the Midwest Matter?
Notes on the geography of greatness.
The Curtain Falls on the Creative Class
A carnival atmosphere won't solve Cleveland's poverty problem
Midnight in the Rust Belt
There is the idea of “Morning in America," and that of the “Rust Belt." The first brings to mind an emerging light that will show us forward. The second deals in all that is against us ...
Austin, Cleveland, and the Cost of Cool
When Leslie Cochran, the most famous homeless man in Austin, Texas, died last year, the city, whose unofficial slogan was “Keep Austin Weird,” became a little less weird and quite a bit more square.
A Rust Belt Revival Is Beyond Black and White
City analyses often fall prey to black-and-white narratives. The Rust Belt is either “dead” or “reviving.” Residents are either suburbanites or city dwellers, gentrifiers or natives, boosters or negative nabobs.
Why “Rust Belt” Is Not A Pejorative
Some people hate the term "Rust Belt" because of its loaded connotations of decay. For others, the term is a source of pride. I am in the latter camp.
Still Falling: On Chickens and Eggs, Cause and Effect and the Real Problem with the Creative Class
Frank Bures responds to Richard Florida Originally published in Thirty Two Magazine, July 2012 The morning after my story, The [...]
The Fall of the Creative Class
Richard Florida’s doctrine — that gays, artists, and bohemians bring jobs — has been embraced by a whole generation of [...]