Now, due to an aggressive urban renewal campaign, some historic buildings are regaining their former glory.
He also sits on the review committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
Many hope that urban renewal projects like the Eko Atlantic will bring more investment opportunities to the city.
Any big metropolis can tap a central fund, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, for new infrastructure.
Local leadership and broader urban renewal efforts helped change that, but so did a movement in mindsets, Lang said.
Local authorities included in this urban renewal scheme have shown above-average improvements in this year's GCSE results, she says.
It stopped America's urban renewal movement in its tracks, to the utter fury of Moses, Felt, Mumford and the rest.
He promised to ease social frustration by accelerating programmes for urban renewal and for helping young people in poor areas.
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Urban renewal and desegregation led whites to leave central Memphis and turned places like the Courts into last refuges for disheartened blacks.
The centre, which was opened by the London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday, will help young people pursue careers in urban design and urban renewal.
In fact, the Commonwealth Games, originally an image-improving project for the city, have now become merely a staging post in a vast urban renewal scheme.
Entrepreneurship, as an ingredient in urban renewal that Nancy Cantor first described to me some years before she came to Syracuse, is a big part of the potential answer.
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"At first we didn't think the project would be about urban renewal, " Ryan Chin a research fellow at MIT who has worked on the project since 2000, told CNN.
He has also had professional experience with anti-poverty policy (as a governor of the Federal Reserve he chaired the Neighbourhood Reinvestment Corporation, a small government agency that promotes urban renewal efforts).
If it all goes up, CityCenter will represent a gaudy new take on urban renewal, a climate-controlled fantasy land where the well-heeled can sleep, shop and play without dirtying themselves with outsiders.
If it all goes up, CityCenter will represent a gaudy new take on urban renewal, a climate-controlled fantasy land where the well-heeled can sleep, dine, shop and play without dirtying themselves with outsiders.
He highlighted Toronto's own "tower renewal" project, retrofitting buildings in a run-down area of town that he hopes will be an example of a carbon-neutral urban renewal project that can be applicable elsewhere.
The government's vision of more terraced housing, apartments and loft conversions is lifted straight from a recent report on urban renewal by Lord Rogers of Riverside, the architect of the Millennium Dome and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
The area around the Falls is a jumble of failed attempts at urban renewal a bankrupt mall, a foreclosed Native American museum, a shoddy row of cheap attractions, handmade signs and pushcarts selling samosas and souvenir sweatshirts.
The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
Entrepreneurs can't be entrepreneurs without capital, and it was the savings of others that enabled Henry Ford to replace the carriage with the automobile, allowed banks to replace the traditional teller with the ATM and continues to turn formerly blighted city sections into shining examples of urban renewal.
Questionable urban-renewal schemes had left the area oddly disconnected from its surroundings.
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In Athens, meanwhile, Oliaros is working to revive a troubled inner-city neighborhood known as Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio (KM), an urban-renewal initiative that involves architecture, art and local activism.
If Syracuse ever gets growth going again maybe the next generation will be introduced as being from the city that was the beta site for homegrown urban economic renewal that was in keeping with its historic entrepreneurial legacy.
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