Cleveland’s Teardown Runaround
A few months ago, I was riding around on my bike from my old neighborhood near the Collinwood rail yards on Cleveland's East Side to my apartment in suburban Lakewood.
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.
Whose Team Is It? Cleveland Sports & Sinful Taxes
Thanks to some lobbying by the Greater Cleveland Partnership, “one of the largest chambers of commerce in the United States,” a proposed 20-year extension of Cuyahoga County’s “sin tax” ...
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 [...]