Welcome to the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
We are a nonpartisan, applied research and community outreach institute at UNC Charlotte, seeking solutions to the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our communities.
Is there a leadership deficit in rural communities and small towns?
“The more successful towns have a champion. The really successful ones have multiple champions.”
What happens, however, if a community doesn’t have champions to lead it forward? And do our rural communities have such champions - or are they losing their leaders?
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Photo gallery: Camp North End takes shape
Camp North End, a major adaptive reuse project in Charlotte, is transforming a former Model T factory, warehouse and distribution site, missile plant and munitions dump into creative office, restaurant, brewery and retail space.
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