[johnny7]

...devise specific plans to make declining communities attractive and thriving again.

Potemkin villages...

[hinckley buzzard]

,i>...devise specific plans to make declining communities attractive and thriving again.

Cleveland has been doing this repeatedly for a good thirty years, with predictable results. The problem is that college teachers and "urban planners" haven't the foggiest notion of what makes a city work. (Hint: It starts with having a reason for still being there, when the original reason has evaporated).