Sin mucho tiempo para conectarme (todo el día en reuniones; hoy, sobre un tema del que con más calma hablaré, Territorios 2.0), leo en mis feeds dos posts coincidentes.
Por un lado, parece que en Filadefia, las autoridades se quieren tomar en serio la reivindicación de los centros urbanos, iniciando una campaña de sensibilización para promoverlos frente a las tendencias (para mí, todavía presentes, aunque empieza a haber evidencias de lo contrario, como recogía Juan Freire hace unos días) que han apoyado el crecimiento en urban sprawl:
An ordinarily low-profile agency known for dispensing planning advice is unleashing a marketing campaign to promote older towns as a viable alternative to living in the far-flung suburbs.
Today, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission will launch a push to get people to move into inner-ring suburbs such as Collingswood and Lansdowne, or to Philadelphia's lesser-known neighborhoods.
It will do so with the help of nine boroughs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and two city neighborhoods that the DVRPC has designated the inaugural "Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia."
"We think the time is right that people rediscover these kinds of communities," said Barry Seymour, executive director of the DVRPC - and someone who walks the talk as a resident of the Main Line inner-ring town of Narberth.
Today, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission will launch a push to get people to move into inner-ring suburbs such as Collingswood and Lansdowne, or to Philadelphia's lesser-known neighborhoods.
It will do so with the help of nine boroughs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and two city neighborhoods that the DVRPC has designated the inaugural "Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia."
"We think the time is right that people rediscover these kinds of communities," said Barry Seymour, executive director of the DVRPC - and someone who walks the talk as a resident of the Main Line inner-ring town of Narberth.
El artículo completo (Campaign will market older towns) se puede encontrar aquí.
Por otro lado, Los Angeles Times publica un artículo (A new look finds wealth in inner cities) en el que se señalan los beneficios económicos y la mayor disponibilidad de gasto y de oferta en los centros urbanos.
¿Son sólo sospechas? ¿Es ya una tendencia?
