About a month ago, Slate economics blogger Matthew Yglesias wrote a piece suggesting that Silicon Valley’s major techno-corporate entities should migrate en masse to Cleveland — Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Farmers Only, the whole gang. Northeast Ohio could be the “Next Silicon Valley,” he opined, largely because of available housing stock and a populace who’d appreciate the economic boon, (to say nothing of the catered sushi lunches). Local housing investment would be “a win-win rather than an engine of displacement,” Yglesias wrote.
His story was just one in what appears to be an eternally ongoing series, originating both in- and outside of Northeast Ohio, which like to coin Cleveland the next… something.
Last week, for instance, in one of the dumber stories in the urban-facelift ilk, CNN’s Fortune Magazine said Cleveland had a 63-percent chance (WTF?) of becoming “The Next Brooklyn,” this due to the emergence of three “Williamsburg-esque” neighborhoods on the Near West Side. Cleveland was grouped with likes of Louisville, Detroit, Chattanooga (excuse me?) and Newark as cities with the most imminent potential.
Turns out Scene‘s not above this type of anthropological soothsaying ourselves. We’ve hit the data hard, spoken with a handful of relevant professors at international universities and even a few dignitaries in the geopolitical circles we hold in highest esteem to predict what Cleveland might resemble in a few years’ time. The answers may surprise you:
AMSTERDAM — Due to positively bustling drug market (heroin, anybody?) and likelihood that hipster ‘hoods become Bohemian red-light districts;
BEIJING — Due to buildings downtown of varying heights;
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Due to friendly citizens, cheap beer, and several auto mechanics all named Chuck;
SOLON, but back when Solon got its first McDonald’s and spirits were high and the nation gazed and cooed upon its burgeoning culinary scene;
HIROSHIMA, c. 1946 — Due to can-do attitude and ruin-porn appeal;
HINGETOWN (Cleveland, OH) — Due to artsy coffee shops, flea markets, and plucky self-promotion;
MARS — Due to suspicions about water quality and a morning show hosted by a guy named “Rover.”
This article appears in Jan 15-21, 2014.
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Art Bell should have been tracked down for some comments!
Expandig the Role of Greater Cleveland being the Global Center of the Environmental Art Movement
In 2012, as part of the 25 Year Iceality Silver Revelation, the Greater Cleveland Area has become recognized as the Global Home of the Environmental Arts Movement by American Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca of the the International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) as a ‘Cultural Industry’, to foster civic identity, cultivate jobs and tourism, and brand Ohio Environmental Arts and Culture District in the Bioregion”
The Global Home of the Environmental Art Movement is the region in Northern Ohio that is noted for its growing concentration of Sustainable Design and Technology Industries. Geographically, the region occupies the same area as the Greater Cleveland Area where it is centered and where most of the companies are located. It is in the northeastern part of Ohio, an area stretching from the south end to Akron-Canton, Lorain in the west and Youngstown in the east.
It is visualized as the home for many of the world’s largest technology corporations, as well as thousands of small start ups working on a sustainable future. The term ICEALITY refers to the region’s original innovator, the International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA), the environmental arts pioneer, but it eventually expands to all sustainable practices, and is now generally used as a metonym for the global cultural of peace sector.
Since 1987, the success of ICEA has spawned a number of other Peace/Environmental Centers throughout the United States and the World, but ICEA continues to make the north coast a leading hub for innovation and development. This question may have occurred to many people’s minds when they came across the term ICEALITY. While its meaning is mostly unknown to them, the revolutionary ideas and developments which have been made in this term affect everyone’s daily life, and it is hard to imagine our modern civilization without them. Greater Cleveland is now recognized as the heartland of the Environmental Peace Industry which is based on the ‘Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts.
Iceality saw the “development to the LEED program, the Worlds Children Peace Monument, Urban Lakefront Development and has generated a lot of information on elements related to climate change, population and human rights.
David Jakupca, asserts that, “Respect for human and environmental rights and greater understanding between people from different racial and religious backgrounds must be the first goal of society in today’s fast-changing, globalized world.” The goal is accomplished according to Jakupca, “Is by focusing on the creative process and affirming to the principles of the “Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts”. The Theory on Environmental Arts (ICEALITY*) was enthusiastically embraced by the United Nations by 1990 and was featured in many of their World Conferences;
1- 1992 Earth Summit on the Environment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2- 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, Austria
3- 1994 World Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, Egypt
4- 1995 World Conference on Women, Beijing, China
5- 1996 Habitat II- UN Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul, Turkey
6- 2000 World’s Fair, Expo2000, Hannover, Germany
7- 2001 World Conference on Racism, Durban, South Africa
8- 2002 World Summit on Sustainability, Johannesburg, South Africa
9- 2003 World Conference on Peace, Verbania, Italy
10- 2005 World Conference on Peace, Verbania, Italy
11- 2007 World Peace Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The result of this major global public promotion at the United Nations level, is that the Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts is now considered as the cornerstone of the modern sustainable global Environmental Art Movement and this concept is now replicated by artists, architects, urban planners and sustainable organizations throughout the World, reflecting a still growing global audience.
Looking at our over populated society in which Sustainability has become a necessity against Ecocide, the crucial role of Iceality in the Environmental Arts and Design Revolution becomes even more evident.
This also makes Iceality a philosophy meaning that there is hope for Humanity after all, and that improvements in our Society can take place daily. American Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca see it as a transformation from the rust belt to a place where, “Economics and Culture combined with leading edge technology and thriving entrepreneurship, financial investors and pioneering organizational styles provide the background for the most profound inquiry ever into the Nature of Peace that will affect our planet’s very evolution for centuries to come.”
They would like to convey the image of ICEALITY as the nucleus of the modern sustainable agenda for saving our Planet, presenting the most important developments of major elements which comprise the future which is the relationship between Humans and their Environment through Design and Culture, ultimately promoting an effective sustainable global Culture of Peace between all Living Things in the Human, Plant and Animal Kingdoms.
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