Presenter: Alan Mallach, Senior Fellow, Center for Community Progress
Light rail lines in Detroit, $5000/month apartments in St. Louis, and million-dollar condos in Center City Philadelphia. The cities are back…or are they? Yes, the urban revival is real, but at the same time, in these same cities, hundreds of neighborhoods are losing ground, families becoming poorer, and communities growing increasingly blighted. In this webinar, Alan Mallach, Community Progress senior fellow and author of the important new book, The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America, will discuss what’s really going on in America’s older cities. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the forces that are driving their revival and why that revival is so uneven, why it is not reaching so many of these cities’ people and neighborhoods, and why it is actually making our cities more polarized and more segregated places. Ultimately, participants will gain a better understanding of what can be done, and why change needs to happen at the local level, city by city, by building from the ground up.
If you have any questions about registering, please contact Christina Carter at ccarter@communityprogress.net.