youngstown in nytimes magazine: an update

more and more blog writings just keep on popping up!

is a particularly interesting comment from one of the readers of Pittsblog:

Robert Bruegmann in his book "Sprawl" briefly discusses the growing suburban development around Youngstown, and notes that anti-sprawl zealots (like me, I suppose) point to these communities as evidence of all that is wrong with current development trends. Why are developers throwing up all these subdivisions when you the population of Youngstown proper keeps plummeting? The answer to Bruegmann is that the presence of these communities is the only thing that keeps the remaining middle and upper-middle class families from fleeing the metro area; and eventually, it is these people who are most likely to revitalize the city itself. It's definitely a different take on the relationships of suburbs to cities than many Pittsburgh residents maintain.


Photo courtesy of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society from Metropolis Magazine.

here is a review of blogs out there that reference the nytimes story:

"CEOs for Cities" - Chicago, IL
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"Blogging Ohio" - various cities in Ohio
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"BLDG BLOG" - Los Angeles, California
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"Antirust" - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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"Space, Place, and Identity: Brand Avenue"
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"Resilience Science" - Montréal, Quebec
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"Pittsblog: Learning from Youngstown" - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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"Blueprint for New Orleans" - Lafayette, Louisiana
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"Reurbanize Buffalo" - Buffalo, New York
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"Downsizing Pittsburgh" - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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I'll add more to this post as they come up . . .