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Youngstown's Wick District - a 'shrinking cities' plan
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Wick Neighbors, Inc. is reviewing three proposals submitted in February, 2006 to carry out the Wick District-Smoky Hollow Development Plan. WNI is looking to do a mixed-use, urban development with hopes that it will spur more, dense development and strengthen the core of Youngstown.
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Youngstown shrinking cities in national spotlight
Marc Lefkowitz Says:From Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative on April 24:
On page 65 of the May 2006 issue of Metropolis Magazine, you’ll find an article on the Youngstown 2010 plan and the CUDC’s Oak Hill charrette, part of the “Shrinking Cities” institute from last fall.
creative shrinkage makes the NYTimes
Susan Miller Says:In this article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine Youngstown is noted for its shrinkage planning. I love the idea, but thinking of Youngstown as a bedroom community for Cleveland and Pittsburgh seems a bit far of a commute. There seems to be a fascination with our region in the New York Times of late. Nottingham Spirk at UCI , A Christmas Story House, Hyacinth Lofts and the true grit of surfing in Cleveland. Maybe NYC is not real enough for the editors of the Times anymore, and they are nostalgic for urban issues with teeth. They missed Oberlin poet Bruce Weigl winning the ($150,000) Lannan Poetry award and Viktor Schreckengost winning the National Medal of Arts. They will probably pick up on Jimmy Scott receiving a Kennedy Center honor in March 2007. We’ll see…