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Nature is revealed in “Thin Places” 14 Dec 2011 | 10:10 am
On a gloomy, December day, when “the sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine,” it’s tempting to stay curled up somewhere warm, inside, by a fire. Or to busy myself with the million things I have to do ...
Seiche: Symbolism and reality in an unlikely urban wilderness 16 Nov 2011 | 03:49 pm
The following story is set in Milwaukee. I hope there are neglected places in your city where similar stories may be told. In the midst of active rail lines and towering industrial buildings, I fi...
Thoughts on David Mazmanian 5 Nov 2011 | 05:48 am
(The Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of Pittsburgh invited David Mazmanian, a public policy professor from USC, to talk this past Friday. These are some thoughts on his talk on ci...
Collective Impact in the Rust Belt 5 Oct 2011 | 11:34 am
“Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.” - John Kania & Mark Kramer The te...
GLUEDTogether - Info and Ideas 3 Oct 2011 | 03:39 pm
One of the results of the 2011 GLUE conference (which was amazing!) was a committee of folks working on creating [roughly] quarterly simultaneous physical meetups in GLUE cities which would be linked ...
Meet New GLUE Blogger Marianne Eppig 28 Sep 2011 | 04:38 am
I'm excited to have another blogger on the GLUE team from my home state of Ohio. Meet Marianne Eppig! read more
GLUE Pittsburgh: A Call for New Compasses 13 Sep 2011 | 10:53 am
I landed in Pittsburgh via Toledo several years ago. As much as I love my hometown, I've never regretted trading one rusty city for another very charming one. I also couldn't be more thrilled ...
Larimer: Lessons in Neighborhood Renewal 8 Sep 2011 | 04:54 pm
With our conference just around the corner, it’s time we take a look at Larimer, the Pittsburgh neighborhood where we’ll be convening. Larimer’s story is like that of many Rust Belt cities that have....
Conference Warm-Up: Arts-inspired Site Visit 7 Sep 2011 | 07:41 am
We’ve added another site visit that will appeal to artists and anyone interested in beautifying our cities’ blighted neighborhoods. On this tour, conference goers will take a stroll down Penn Ave. in ...
Conference Warm-Up: More Site Visits! 27 Aug 2011 | 01:35 am
Today we're pleased to highlight two site visits for conference goers that focus on different elements of urban agriculture. read more
