GLUE: Great Lakes Urban Exchange

A new organization is taking regionalism to another level. GLUE, the Great Lakes Urban Exchange, is fostering conversation within and between cities in the Great Lakes Economic Region in order to foster cooperation and innovative strategies for revitalization:

Want to take the “rust” out of “Rustbelt”? Are you an advocate? A neighbor? A voter? A dot connector? The Great Lakes Urban Exchange needs your help to answer the question: what’s right and what’s wrong about my post-industrial city?

Join the movement for a “Rustbelt” Renaissance here on GLUEspace and via GLUE’s offline activities in your sticky city. Become a member, tell your story, and help us collect, cross-pollinate, and replicate good ideas. Welcome to the mega-regional family.

For more information, visit www.gluespace.org and attend a sticky cities meeting.

Regional Cooperation and Economic Development

A recent conference in Youngstown, Ohio, brought together planning and development professionals from each of three cities, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Youngstown, to discuss common challenges and opportunities for regional collaboration. The keynote speaker, John Austin, formerly of the Great Lakes Economic Initiative at the Brookings Institution, provided a look at the Great Lakes Region’s economy and how economic development can come from regional coordination.

Group talks of boosting Great Lakes economy
Saturday, June 21, 2008
The Vindicator
Youngstown, Ohio