Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Urban Publications Affairs 4-2015 From Metal to Minds: Economic Restructuring in the Rust Belt Richey Piiparinen Cleveland State University,
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[email protected]. 1 From Metal to Minds: Economic Restructuring in the Rust Belt April 2015 By Richey Piiparinen, Jim Russell, and Charlie Post Prepared by The Center for Population Dynamics at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. Contact: Richey Piiparinen, Director, email:
[email protected] 2 Table of Contents Forward Page 3 Section 1: Separated at Rebirth Page 4-6 Section 2: The Anti-Social Network Failing to Succeed Page 7-8 “Forums” versus “Fountains” Page 8-9 Section 3: A Pittsburgh Story From the Ashes of Steel Page 9-12 The Software City Page 12-14 Succeeding in Failure Page 14-19 Section 4: The Rise of the Knowledge Society Page 19-23 Section 5: Cleveland’s Cure The Kardiac Kids Page 23-26 Moths to a Flame Page 27-29 Keeping the “River” Burning Page 29-30 3 Foreword There has been no lack of ink spilled on the effects of deindustrialization in Rust Belt cities.