Recognizing cultural diversity key to Cincinnati’s future

For all the efforts towards developing and growing cities, often it is the culture and history of the people that get lost.  This is an important component of what makes cities great, and it is a component that is unfortunately beginning to disappear in many great American cities, including Cincinnati.  In Cincinnati, neighborhoods seem to be losing their cultural uniqueness, and are simply being transformed into population clusters.  Further, it is the negative stereotypes--rather than the positive ones--that seem to persist in these neighborhoods.  This negativity has led to a "me vs. you" culture that brings down the city as a whole.


In this op-ed for UrbanCincy, I fathom that "by better recognizing and marketing what is great about the different neighborhoods in our city, we can begin to change what is often an overall negative attitude into a positive one."


http://www.urbancincy.com/2011/04/recognizing-cultural-diversity-key-to-cincinnati%E2%80%99s-future/