Rightsizing Right

Client: Forum Journal | Vol. 27 No. 4
Date: Summer 2013

In the Forum Journal’s Summer 2013 issue, titled Preservation in the City, PlaceEconomics’ former Director of the Rightsizing Cities Initiative, Cara Bertron, writes about historic preservation and rightsizing in post-industrial legacy cities.

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