The Spring 2010 Living Cities Newsletter highlights recent events and initiatives including: the Neighborhood Stabilization Boot Camp, the Living Cities Integration Initiative, the Project on Municipal Innovation meeting, and an economic roundtable in Detroit to discuss the role of philanthropy in economic development.
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This summer 2009 edition of Living Cities Monthly provides an in-depth look at the Green Boot Camp: Recovery through Retrofitting, which was held at the beginning of June in Cambridge. The coverage includes a detailed account of the camp, a focused look at the camp’s purpose and curriculum as well as information on Living Cities’ follow-up work to the camp. Information on the organization’s New York City- and Washington, D.C.-based summer associates is also provided.
This issue of The Living Cities Update provides an overview of the “Green Boot Camp:Recovery through Retrofitting,” which was held at the end of May, an overview of how Living Cities is supporting green jobs initiatives around the country as part of an integrative strategy to help improve the lives of low-income people, and an explanation of how the Center for American Progress is helping to set Living Cities’ housing agenda based on current events and future needs.
This issue of Living Cities Monthly highlights the organization’s upcoming Green Stimulus Boot Camp: Recovery through Retrofitting for state and local leaders, which will serve as an intensive training and peer-to-peer networking program for teams of city and state government officials. The output from Living Cities’ Transit Oriented Development Convening in February is also covered in this issue, along with information on the new faces and new roles for Living Cities staff and board member A. Dennis White.