“Last year Youngstown 2010—a partnership between the city’s planning department and Youngstown State University—unveiled a comprehensive plan to reduce nonessential infrastructure, attract new businesses, and rehab deteriorated and abandoned spaces. In fact Youngstown is the first city in the United States to adopt this disarming approach to the problems of population decline. ‘It’s politically and professionally uncomfortable to face the shrinkage of a city or region, even though it may be staring you in the face,’ says Frank Popper, an urban-planning professor at Rutgers and Princeton universities. ‘I think it’s enormously brave and creative and innovative of Youngstown to be taking on this task.’…” (go to article)
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