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A City Is Like an Elephant

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Whether by default or design, all of us on the SOTRU team are gradually becoming city experts. With each fresh location we go to, we accumulate new perspectives on how different places are approaching a frequently overlapping set of challenges, be it how to stem a rise in crime or reverse a loss of jobs, halt a wave of foreclosures or repair an urban infrastructure that’s seen better days. What if to solve some of these problems we turned not to the usual handful of urban planners and economic development honchos… but to a group of physicists? (more…)

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Postcard from New Orleans: Just a Sunday Afternoon Second Line

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

It’s a Sunday afternoon in New Orleans, and we’re stuck in traffic on an ordinary street in the Central City neighborhood. The reason? We made the mistake of trying to drive through the route of a second line. For all the fame of the city’s parades around Mardi Gras, New Orleans residents take to the streets every weekend for a good chunk of the year to second line… yes, it’s both a noun and a verb. Second lines stem from the city’s jazz funeral tradition: the main line is made up of the somber mourners; the second line is the folks following behind—celebrating and dancing. (more…)

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Our Stories Told By Us

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

The front cover for one of the Neighborhood Story Project's books

I’ve learned something, talking to people who’ve lived through a tragedy—be it the death of a loved one or a tornado destroying a home or an entire town: there is something profoundly healing about the telling a story. This is a lesson the city of New Orleans offers plentiful evidence of; everywhere you turn, there’s another organization recording stories, from oral histories to anecdotes, legends of the city’s Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs to tales of Hurricane Katrina mayhem. (more…)

Tags: Al Letson, coming ou the door for the ninth ward, neighborhood story project, new orleans, State of the Re:Union, tina antolini
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Crabtree Farms in Chattanooga, TN

Chattanooga, Tennessee, is nicknamed the Scenic City for a good reason. With breathtaking vistas of the Appalachian mountains and the Tennessee River flowing through it, the city is rich with outdoor beauty. To add to its resume, Forbes ranked Chattanooga as the eighth most affordable city in America in 2009. But Chattanooga hasn’t always had [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘tina antolini’

A City Is Like an Elephant

Postcard from New Orleans: Just a Sunday Afternoon Second Line

Our Stories Told By Us

Crabtree Farms in Chattanooga, TN