Jason Segedy is Director of the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study. What is it that animates a religious congregation? What role does its building and its specific site play in furthering its mission? How are people of faith responding to scarcity - in both their own congregation and in the community at large? Is it possible to effectively minister to urban … [Read more...]
Notes from the Underground: A series of smaller places
Understanding Akron's neighborhoods in 30 maps Jason Segedy is Director of the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study. I have written before about the important of rejecting false choices when it comes to discussing our places. Most urban places are large and diverse enough that they cannot easily be pigeonholed or painted with an overly broad-brush. Is Akron … [Read more...]