Youngstown State University unveiled the Postindustrial Urbanization and Globalization Institute (PUGI), the result of generous funding to be administered by the Council on Competitiveness. PUGI's mission is to build the new city of globalization from the established infrastructure of America's Industrial Heartland. The project seeks to "recycle urban resources for a global innovation economy." Youngstown will serve as the living laboratory for the first 5-years of research from which the next generation of US urban policy will spring.
In 1925, urban planner & historian Lewis Mumford described four “great tides” of migration that reflected the economic transformation of the US. Eight decades later, Robert Fishman (professor of architecture & urban planning at the University of Michigan) noted the large-scale return of people to global cities, labeling it the Fifth Migration. Today’s great tide, the Sixth Migration, is ebbing from global cities & towards a better quality of life.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Blog Release: Postindustrial Urbanization and Globalization Institute
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