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Its snowing like crazy, but in terms of how the city's doing, Minneapolis (and St. Paul) are in a late spring blooming period. Lots of growth. One aspect I see, because I work in the alcohol industry, is so many up and coming breweries, particularly in Saint Paul. Lot of communities are seeing regrowth.
Richmond is in Early Spring. However, I am not sure that the city will progress much past that as it seems like it is beginning to skip summer and go on to autumn. Richmonds true summer was in the 60s and 70s before the crime rate started to increase.
Richmond is in Early Spring. However, I am not sure that the city will progress much past that as it seems like it is beginning to skip summer and go on to autumn. Richmonds true summer was in the 60s and 70s before the crime rate started to increase.
I agree that just like some cities can skip winter, others can skip summer. Baltimore, for instance, had its summer in the late 19th/early 20th century up through World War II, then moved to autumn after the war as white flight commenced and other things like the decline of the Howard Street retail district and the end of streetcar system surfaced, then had a winter after the 1968 riots, had a bit of a spring in the 1980s with gentrification in neighborhoods like Canton, Federal Hill, and Hampden along with a revitalization Inner Harbor, but skipped its "second summer" around the mid-1990s as the comeback attempt faltered, and returned to winter in the 2010s with the Freddie Gray riots being the equivalent of a blizzard.
The OP's long introduction to the categories is helpful in understanding how he/she sees the seasons, but it seems to presume that a city had to become crap and reborn before it can be categorized.
Statements like "place to live again" and "rough around the edges" are confusing to me.
If in fact the OP wants to know about a city center's rebirth, and not the entire city itself, then I can begin to understand it a bit better. I say that because the rebirth of the city center is fairly shared experience across many American cities, but not others.
By now, the worst of the city's problems are clearly behind itself and the redevelopment is starting to spread beyond the original gentrified plans, but there is still considerable progress to be made, from fixing up some of the less-attractive neighborhoods, attracting top companies and organizations, and continuing to reduce problems like crime and city services.
This certainly describes Philly. Gentrification is reaching 'hoods that would seem far-fetched twenty years ago. The metro is at a sweet spot where it is growing, but at a sustainable rate. East University City is adding enough jobs and office space where it is starting to feel like Center City and Uni City create one cohesive downtown. However, crime, trash, and the condition of city streets are still issues. Public transit is pretty decent, but the city could amp up the subway in a few different ways (extending lines, adding lines). The job market is pretty strong, but distributed disjointedly throughout the metro.
Early-mid spring here in Buffalo, although some local boosters would have you believe it's summertime. I'm not too convinced that Buffalo will ever really get beyond mid-late spring; I'll believe it when I see it
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