Detroit, Akron, Chicago and Memphis will get a collective $40 million to invest in their public spaces in an effort to counter recent trends toward worsening social and economic segregation. Four national foundations — the JPB Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Kresge Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation — announced last week that they will invest a total of $20 million for civic space in improvements in these cities. The other $20 million will come from local sources. The program, titled “
Reimagining the Civic Commons,” launched as an ongoing pilot in Philadelphia in 2015.
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