Urban Trends

PlaNetizen links to a Brookings Top Ten List of urban trends, but they kindly pull out the three they think are most relevent to their readers. Of those, one stands out to me as a very telling fact:

#3: "More than one-third of the nation's loss of manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2005 occurred in seven Great Lakes states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."

Think: Detroit, Scranton, Akron, Gary.
We still don't have any real strategy for reclaiming cities like these. We do have some interesting approaches to sites within these, like MASS MoCA.