Improving quality of place goes with economic success, Lou Glazer says

Sixty years later, Michigan Future's Lou Glazer calls for Michigan to adopt the same forward thinking of a CEO in 1950s southern Indiana. Good points.

Excerpt:

"So I was reading, not for work,  a New York Times article on the architecture of Columbus, Indiana when I came across this:  It was, in fact, J. Irwin Miller, scion of the Irwin-Miller family and arts patron, who transformed Columbus into an architectural mecca.  As head of the Cummins Engine Company for 30 years, Mr. Miller reasoned that extraordinary buildings would help Cummins lure top talent to the rural Midwest.  (Emphasis added.)

All of sudden, I was reading it for work. In the 1950s the CEO of the Cummins Engine Company in a small southern Indiana town understood, what we are still having trouble understanding today in Michigan, that place matters. What was important in the Fifties is almost certainly more important today."

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