Two leading American public radio presenters, Stephen Smith from Minnesota and Nick Spitzer from New Orleans, offer a provocative cultural tour of the city's road to renewal.

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Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.

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Entrepreneurs can't be entrepreneurs without capital, and it was the savings of others that enabled Henry Ford to replace the carriage with the automobile, allowed banks to replace the traditional teller with the ATM and continues to turn formerly blighted city sections into shining examples of urban renewal.

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If Syracuse ever gets growth going again maybe the next generation will be introduced as being from the city that was the beta site for homegrown urban economic renewal that was in keeping with its historic entrepreneurial legacy.

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The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.

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In fact, the Commonwealth Games, originally an image-improving project for the city, have now become merely a staging post in a vast urban renewal scheme.

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In Athens, meanwhile, Oliaros is working to revive a troubled inner-city neighborhood known as Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio (KM), an urban-renewal initiative that involves architecture, art and local activism.

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Many hope that urban renewal projects like the Eko Atlantic will bring more investment opportunities to the city.

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