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Semantic reloading: Reports from Shrinking Cities Symposium

Marc Lefkowitz  |  05/14/07 @ 4:34pm

Last week’s Shrinking Cities Symposium at St. Josaphat—a church that was beautifully adapted into an arts hall in Cleveland’s Midtown industrial corridor—inspired new thoughts about the empty fields and idle buildings at the center of 20th century powerhouses like Detroit and Cleveland. At the forefront of the movement are artists like Mel Chin, Kyong Park and Frances Whitehead, whose ecological art moves beyond gallery walls to tap the natural capital latent in cities and older towns. Read more.

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