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		<title>Greater Buffalo Continues to Bulldoze its Nicest Buildings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lackawanna is on a tear lately in an ill-advised effort to eliminate its historic heritage. The latest news from the former steel city is that it&#8217;s compelling the demolition of the old Lackawanna Steel office building (later known as Bethlehem North Office Building).  The demolition is set to begin today, Monday, May 21.&#160;

The old Lackawanna Steel headquarters has been empty for probably three decades and neglected for probably four.  It may be the most historic building in Lackawanna, after the OLV Basilica.  It was the heart of the Western New York steel industry ...]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/21/greater-buffalo-continues-to-bulldoze-its-nicest-buildings/</link>
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		<title>Rust Belt Chic: Not Just for Hipsters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The biggest challenge facing a shrinking city is the move of the working class from the urban core to the suburban fringes. Rust Belt Chic is about more than the return home to help. It also concerns a reversal of the flow to greener pastures. The inner city is the new frontier, whereas outlying rural areas used to be the &#8216;blank slates&#8217; for utopian dreams. The only irony here is that suburbia is now suffering from blight.&#8221;
Jim Russel, from Bar Mleczny in the Cleveland Review
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Salon’s Will Doig wrote a thoughtful, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/18/rust-belt-chic-not-just-for-hipsters/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Bicycle Friendly Communities&#8221; of the Rust Belt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of this post is a list of those communities in the Rust Belt that have been designated by the League of American Bicyclists as a &#8220;Bicycle Friendly Community&#8221; on its 2012 list. A total of 210 communities have received this honor nationwide, including 47 (22.4%) here in the Rust Belt.
Nine communities that are shown in italics were added to the list in the past year.  Another 11 communities in the Rust Belt where named honorable mentions. Please note the list does not include several communities in the Boston, New York ...]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/17/bicycle-friendly-communities-of-the-rust-belt/</link>
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		<title>In Honor of the Casino Opening: A Look at Cleveland&#8217;s Long History of Class Warfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many histories of Cleveland. Not just one history of the city. No history that would tell us, "This is the way it was."

There are many ways to report history. It could be from the view of different people. Different movements. Different economics. Different heroes. Different villains. Different reasons why the city went this way or that way.

Now, there is a new history examining this city through the eyes of what many people might see as odd or unusual.

Daniel Kerr's "Derelict Paradise - Homelessness and urban development in Cleveland, Ohio," does this. It is a remarkable testament of how - through the city's history - the poor (especially black poor) have been pushed aside to make way for what the wealth of the community deemed Progress. ]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/15/in-honor-of-the-casino-opening-a-look-at-clevelands-long-history-of-class-warfare/</link>
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		<title>Video: Mark Gorton &#8212; Designing Cities for People, Not Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a really phenomenal presentation, last Wednesday at Cleveland&#8217;s The City Club. Mark Gorton is the founder of Openplans, a New York City based nonprofit that has been instrumental in that city&#8217;s evolution toward being a leading in cycling and livable transportation.
If you didn&#8217;t have a chance to attend, but are curious, you can view the whole presentation here:
Video after the jump

(Fun fact: intro comes from Rust Wire founding editor Angie Schmitt, a Streetsblog employee.)
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		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/14/video-mark-gorton-designing-cities-for-people-not-cars/</link>
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		<title>Remembering the 1968 Riots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The spring of 1968 ushered in one of the most tumultuous years in modern American History. A year that nearly saw the fabric of the country split apart as assassinations, riots, and protests rocked cities from coast to cast.

Much ink has been spilled over the lingering cultural and social fallout from that year. We have also largely remembered the impact of the icons that were martyred in 68. Much less attention has been paid though to the lasting side effects of the massive riots/uprisings that followed the assassination of Dr. King.
In the days after April 4th, 117 civil disturbances broke out in inner cities across America. In 18 of those the National Guard was required to put down the rioting. Federal troops ultimately marched into three cities: Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/11/remembering-the-1968-riots/</link>
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		<title>Sorting Through the Census Data on Central Cleveland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me first say I don&#8217;t consider myself a Cleveland cheerleader. I consider myself a Clevelander that is tired of the weariness that comes with asserting my city&#8217;s right to exist outside of poverty and punchlines. Is Cleveland poor and a punchline? Yes. Is that all to the story? No.
So when I was presented with the chance to tell a Cleveland story for the D.C.-based Urban Institute I knew what I didn’t want to do: a piece on vacancy, and joblessness, and the general malaise of the Rust Belt condition. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/10/why-growth-even-slow-or-limited-in-central-cleveland-matters/</link>
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		<title>From Millionaire&#8217;s Row to Riots: A Comprehensive History of Cleveland&#8217;s Hough Neighborhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8000 BCE. Humans and mammoths co-exist in Northeast Ohio until we hunt them into extinction.  Hough probably not settled due to bugs.
1200 AD. Native peoples begin settling into villages in river valleys.
1500 AD. Mound builders start to disappear.
1600s. Iroquois take over Ohio in a bloody war with various tribes.
1700s. Iroquois  move east to fight the French and English. Wyandot move into region  (most artifacts near Sandusky). They were known for their “rough hair”  (read: mohawks—my husband is a descendant.)
1799. Doan family builds tavern at E. 107th &#38; Euclid ...]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/08/from-millionaires-row-to-riots-a-comprehensive-history-of-clevelands-hough-neighborhood/</link>
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		<title>From Chicago&#8217;s 63rd Street: Where&#8217;s the Public Interest in Public-Private Partnerships?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[63rd Street was once a mecca of culture and business on Chicago’s South Side. Amelia Earhart went to a high school on the street. Duke Ellington confabbed with Tony Bennett between gigs. Hugh Hefner (only arguably cultural, but certainly a businessman) assembled the first issues of his magazine in a nearby apartment.

Today, 63rd Street is a tabula rasa. It’s a boulevard of grass, a razed meadow in the heart of America’s third-largest city. Not even drug dealers or gang bangers hang out here. There’s no place to sit, no stoops to command. ]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/07/from-chicagos-63rd-street-wheres-the-public-interest-in-public-private-partnerships/</link>
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		<title>The Conflicted Class: The Rust Belt as a Source of Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That flow of creativity pirouetting into the Rust Belt—it isn’t just about cheap space. Or the fact our cities have the feel of a Tom Waits song.  It’s also the realness, particularly the prevalence of conflict. There’s conflict in the person trying to make do. And there&#8217;s conflict in the post-industrial landscape.
Imagine for a moment: there is a spot not far from where I live. It was the stockyards. It had money and movement; now it has shells of buildings and gaps in the street line. What’s still there are ...]]></description>
		<link>http://rustwire.com/2012/05/04/the-conflicted-class-the-rust-belt-as-a-source-of-creativity/</link>
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