{"id":25126,"date":"2011-03-17T01:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_in_ohio_a_shrinking_city_knocks_down_neighborhoods\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T01:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:10:43","slug":"npr_in_ohio_a_shrinking_city_knocks_down_neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25126","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) In Ohio a Shrinking City Knocks Down Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 2006, most of the steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio, had been gone for decades. The population was shrinking year after year. So the city launched a bold plan to redeem itself.<\/p>\n<p>The plan: Quit trying to redeem itself&#8230;.Youngstown walked away from the most fundamental assumption of economic development and city planning: The idea that a city needs to grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We needed as a city to recognize that we&#8217;re a smaller city,&#8221; says Bill D&#8217;Avignon, head of Youngstown city planning. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to grow; we&#8217;re never going to be the Youngstown we thought we were going to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2011\/03\/15\/134432054\/a-shrinking-city-knocks-down-neighborhoods\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2006, most of the steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio, had been gone for decades. The population was shrinking year after year. So the city launched a bold plan to redeem itself. The plan: Quit trying to redeem itself&#8230;.Youngstown walked<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25126\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,615,589,149,600,597,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-city-government","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}