One man's mission to revitalize small-town America
According to Adam Baacke, Lowell’s assistant city manager for planning and development, achieving this transformation was essentially a three-step process that could perhaps be best described as politics, permitting, and pathfinding. Politics refers to changing attitudes (and people) on the city council, where most members shunned downtown housing
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get asked a lot in Birmingham, do you really believe that system change can happen, and well my answer is yes. When we talk about ‘the system,’ to me that is a set of entrenched powers and structures that exists, these systems exist to sustain themselves, and those who run them or benefit most from them wouldn’t benefit from them ever changing, why
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This is about giving people tools to reshape their spaces to mirror their most rewarding social relationships. And if enough people do this it will start to reshape cities themselves.
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Adam’s suggestion that WeWork take on the task of reimagining America’s post offices and libraries.
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CHAPTER ONE Changing Cities for Good