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How will the film help other cities?

What is this project’s value to other metro areas
and their downtowns?

It will help to educate other cities and can be used in the following manner:

  • With sufficient funding it can be disseminated throughout the United States to major universities, colleges and libraries to promote community development focused in the urban core.

  • The film will be used as a learning tool so that other cities may benefit from the lessons learned by Kansas City in revitalizing the urban core.

  • It will teach others how to tie downtown projects to the history and diversity of the entire region and will help other communities understand how historical buildings represent the heart and soul of our heritage.

  • Other cities will view how complex, aesthetic decisions are made and how various perspectives and viewpoints are considered to strengthen the process.

  • The film will provide a challenge and opportunity for citizens of all major urban centers to equal Kansas City’s spirit and accomplishments in an urban renaissance.

 

"It really is the basic question of why real estate works, why we build cities, why certain places are valuable and other places are not. And it's all about making a special place, and we in this country have forgotten how to make special places over the last 50, 60 years. "

CHRISTOPHER B. LEINBERGER
Urban Land Strategist & Developer
The Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.

 

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