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Milwaukee is the New Portland; How One Rust Belt City Found the Key to its Rebirth

September 4, 2014 by Wangard

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is known for taking prickly offense at the term “Rust Belt.” Nonetheless, the belt fits. The old-line manufacturing cities of the upper Midwest preceded the rest of the nation in collapse by decades. Foreclosure, blight, drugs, failed schools, homelessness, brownfields, pollution, decay, and crime: there’s plenty to justify the term, and Milwaukee has it all. Or maybe had it all. Because a closer look at the city reveals whole vats of lemonade where once were heaps of lemons.

View the full article as originally seen on OnEarth.org and authored by Richard Manning on Salon.com.

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