
Small, Gritty, and Green
How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.
America''s once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities—Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others—increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste t...
How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.
America''s once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities—Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others—increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste t...