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College for Creative Studies

GLUE was developed in the fall of 2007 as a forum for people to exchange stories, ideas, and best practices between otherwise isolated cities ranging from Detroit to St. Louis to Minneapolis. The GLUE coalition, comprised of post-boomer urbanists located in the "rustbelt," was founded to promote the power, aide in the positive transformation, and address the shared challenges of similarly-storied older industrial cities situated in the Great Lakes watershed.

Alyssa Mullen and Brett Renfer
College for Creative Studies
awatson@collegeforcreativestudies.edu

Great Lakes Urban Initiative

The challenge with GLUEspace was to make a framework for a content heavy site that was rigid enough to withstand diverse functionality but flexible enough for a constant stream of changing content. The site had to be modular in order to adapt to the client's future needs and to the increase in user-memberships.

Using a menagerie of free and open source technology (flickr, wordpress, google maps, etc.) we were able to effectively build an environment that was cost effective for a growing non-profit organization.

GLUEspace

College for Creative Studies

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