Rustbelt Revived

Sign in Subscribe

Cleveland

The most major city in Northeast Ohio. Conversations around how we can encourage economic growth are abound.

East lot with Ford Motor Company just north. c. 1950s Source: ARCGIS Cleveland Historic Maps

Reclaiming Rail: A Proxy for Reclaiming a City

We the people can demand a return of the jobs. Not as luddites, but as people who are tired of corporations poisoning our air. The beauty of electrification is that it allows us to concentrate the pollution away from our urban centers.

Google Earth image of former Cleveland Electric Coal Plant.

A City's Obligation: Jobs, Homes, and Food

There are many folks who live in Cleveland living in poverty and will remain in poverty unless the city claims responsibility for its citizens. Nearly 50% of children are in poverty in Cleveland; we need to stop the bleeding and fast.

ArcGIS image of National Acme from c. 1934

Industrial Revival on Coit Rd?

That is when the policing will pick up on the area. The new business owners do not feel safe and start spending more on cops in the area. They are now there to protect and serve the property. Tale as old as urbanism.

Cleveland Historical ARCGis image from ~1951. This shows the neighborhood that I-90 eradicated.

Cleveland: Public Services to Save Economy

Our current economic system dictates that the able bodies must work to survive. Social/Public Services for our communities should be the number one employer in the city. How has the city neglected its citizens?

Cleveland Market Analysis: The East Side

Cleveland Market Analysis: The East Side

Buses are much heavier and their rubber output much higher than personal vehicles. The city has an obligation to mitigate this impact by replacing the buses with trolley/trams.

ArcGIS Cleveland c 1927 showing Peerless Motor Car Company before they decided to be a brewer

East 105th: We Don't Blow Developers Here

They have made profit from the area, but the population not returning to even half of the previous peak in 30 years may indicate the system of CDCs are not remotely efficient.

Workers and Machines organized into two columns with 30+ rows.

Crash Course in American Industrial History via North East Ohio

We are reviewing Northeast Ohio history through the goggles of the industrial corporations that helped build the region and then turned their backs on it. What is the role that these corporations serve? They were major organizations of labor that secondarily benefited the local economy.