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Bringing Back Chattanooga
October 25, 2005
Jack Murrah president, Lyndhurst Foundation
Peter Karoff founder, chairman, TPI

Jack Murrah, president of the Lyndhurst Foundation, joins Peter Karoff for an open forum discussion of how one foundation helped one city regain its identity and its "grace."

Community revitalization is about more than institution building. To bring back Chattanooga, a city long down on its luck, The Lyndhurst Foundation found ways to put visionary experts together with ordinary citizens to create pictures of the future that people were able to agree about, willing to work for and willing to invest in.

Culture & Identity | People & Places
Chattanooga | citizenship | community revitalization | revitalization | social dilemnas | Architecture | Community Building | Philanthropy
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