EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4-5:30 p.m. March 19, 2014

EVENT: “Lessons from Youngstown—Planning for a Smaller, Greener city.” In 2005, Youngstown, Ohio, released its innovative “2010 Plan,” which accepted that Youngstown would not grow yet could still become a better, smaller city.

A decade out, what have we learned? June Thomas and Margaret Dewar, University of Michigan urban and regional planning professors and co-editors of The City After Abandonment, moderate the panel discussion.

Panelists include Hunter Morrison, one of the planners who led “Youngstown 2010” and is now executive director of the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium; Ian Beniston, deputy director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.; and John Russo, visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech’s Metropolitan Institute and co-author of “Steeltown.”

PLACE: U-M’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall, 735 S. State St., Ann Arbor

SPONSOR: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School and the Detroit School Series

INFORMATION: www.fordschool.umich.edu/events/calendar/1624

CONTACT: Bonnie Roberts, (734) 647-4091, [email protected]