![just stay put: an alternative vision for arts-based urban revitalization just stay put: an alternative vision for arts-based urban revitalization](https://pages.vassar.edu/musicalurbanism/files/2011/04/dsc_0050-1-290x290.jpg)
just stay put: an alternative vision for arts-based urban revitalization
Here are some thoughts about a different way to think about arts-based urban revitalization, written in the form of a suspiciously confident manifesto. These ideas are completely pie-in-the-sky and fly in the face of the prevailing wisdom in this field, but I’m fine with that if it reveals some fallacies and unspoken assumptions of most...
![are you really going to listen to their new album? are you really going to listen to their new album?](https://pages.vassar.edu/musicalurbanism/files/2011/01/echo3-290x290.jpg)
are you really going to listen to their new album?
I’ll admit, I got excited after seeing the announcement that Echo & the Bunnymen are performing their first two albums, Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here, in their entirety on an upcoming North American tour. Ocean Rain is fine; they played that whole album on tour awhile ago anyway. For my money, though, the gloomy garage rock—“Going Up,” “Over The...