Rebuilding the Carolinas Urban-Rural Connection: Where do we go from here?
Two years ago, we set off on a journey to refamiliarize ourselves with the greater Charlotte region.
With funding from The Duke Endowment, the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute sought to understand how a cohesive region whose shared identity was once synonymous with the ethos of New South prosperity had splintered in recent decades. A thriving urban core diverged economically and culturally from the region’s more rural communities and small towns.