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What examples can you share of cities and communities that are either currently struggling or that have made strides toward revitalisation? What patterns, trends or commonalities can we identify?
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A very successful example.
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Advanced Locality Management - Collaborative Solid Waste management
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America's Dying Cities
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Art can change the world
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Bank on Cities Project
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Barefoot Solar Engineers
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Be like Berlin - attract artists and encourage art
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Berlin!!
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Braddock, PA, Levi's and the "Ready to Work" campaign
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bright colours
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Charm City + MICA.
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Chennai's Women Auto-rickshaw Drivers are Engines of Social Development
Chicago...Go To 2040
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City of WestMinster plans to be a Sustainable Community
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Cleaning Day
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Concrete pipes transformed into eco-hotel in Mexico
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Connecting citizens with Government to fund + support change
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Create the job that you always wanted !
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Creating Life from Waste
Since 1957, Garden-Ville in San Antonio, TX has been taking food and industri...
Creating lively public spaces
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Creating seemingly impossible living spaces
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Crisis map for japanese disaster
This service provides earthquake information to everyone.
CUFA - the Central Union of the Favelas
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Cultivating a Sense of Local Pride and Belonging
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Demolition of Japan's 'New Town'
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Designing Dublin
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Determine your own course of Education
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Detroit Business Customer Loyalty Program
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Detroit Digital Justice Coalition-Communication is a fundamental human right
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Detroit Works Project
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Do poverty and revitalization work together?
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Dying Cities Can Be Saved
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Dying Mining Town
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Earthworks Urban Farm, Detroit
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Economic Gardening: Providing Entrepreneurs with the Fertilizer They Need to Grow
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Elephant & Castle Regeneration
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Elvis' Urban Renewal
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Empowering Youth, Center for Urban Pedagogy
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Engaging Omaha
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Ghost Towns of the Western States
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Giving Small Businesses a Chance
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GoodWill - Retailing with a cause
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Grand Rapids Personal Music Video/Street Party Defies Negative Critics
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Grassroots Detroit Gardeners
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Greek Protestors with Black Ribbons
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Green Belt Movement - Wangari Maathai
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Green Infrastucture and Urban Gardens
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Greenfield, you are my home.
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Grown in Detroit
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Here Comes The Neighborhood
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How to give retired people a meaningful second life
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Ideas are more inspiring
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Innovate for the Greater Good
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Eve Mosher is an artist and interventionist living in Brooklyn, NY. Insert_He...
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Keeping it local
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Konbit
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Let people complain
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Library for Youth
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Lightweight soil is designed for rooftop urban gardens
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Liverpool Biennial: Public art project
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Living Parks
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Local Cooperative: (Amul & SEWA from India)
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Look to the Northeast on Refurisbing Old Buildings
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Loveland - Inchvesting in a better community
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Madgeburg's Open-Air Library
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Make the city look colourful!
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Maker Faire Detroit
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Making a Living in Mumbai
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Making Abandoned Buildings Beautiful
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Marathon Grill restaurant builds neighborhood farm in Philadelphia
Marathon Grill restaurant built a farm in the Brewerytown section of Philadel...
Mark Covington, Georgia Street Community Garden, Detroit
Mark Covington, Georgia Street Community Garden, Detroit
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MIT Smart City
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Mixed-Use Redevelopments Attract New Startups and Help New Haven Transform
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Motor City
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Mumbai Train Station Bazaars
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Naomi Davis: Blacks in Green
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Nomadic gardening
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Once Upon a School
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One Step at a Time: Giving Inspiration through Running Towards a Common Goal
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One Story of Liege
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Out of the Blocks. Telling Baltimore's stories, one block at a time.
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Permablitz
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PieLab
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Sourcemap
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Strip Mall Retrofits
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Using temporary, inexpensive yet creatively designed structures to completely...
Temporary shipping container mall to stimulate economic recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand
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The Domino Effect: When One City Falls...
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The Nature of Cities
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Transform a Space
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Transition Towns
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Twilight Concert Series
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Two Cities Sharing a Dream
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Urban transport of future
To support all these posts about transportation.
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what is actually the opposite of vibrancy?
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