http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=72491_0_23_0_C

I think most of what he is talking about in the article relates
directly to Cleveland's issues. I would even argue Cleveland is a
'better' location for what he is talking about then Baltimore, but
that is obviously the city he is most familiar with.

favorite quote from the article...

'Screw globalisms, go local. Local is global at a different scale.
Every emergence is just a million little totalities, every pirate is a
miniature emperor, and every drug dealer is a wannabe developer. As
Lester Freamon says in The Wire: "We're building something here,
detective, we're building it from scratch, and all the pieces matter."

Also, for anyone that is a music geek, Baltimore's Wham City (http://
whamcity.com/) music collective gets mentioned. Baltimore's music
scene at the moment is producing some of the weirdest, most exciting
stuff out there at the moment as far as local scenes go, which is a
direct reaction to the atmosphere in the city at the moment. They put
on a ridiculous festival every summer called Whartscape (learn more
here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/44380-live-whartscape-m...),
that has gained a lot of notoriety pretty quickly. Dan Deacon one of
the key people in Wham City has toured and collaborated with both
White Williams and Girl Talk (Greg Gillis) who both have strong roots
in Cleveland.