Ideas for Cities
A Look at the Future of Cities
As a follow up to the VELOCITY creative salons in Grand Rapids (and later in DC), our friends at GOOD are generating daily postings (with super-cool graphics) on some of the best ideas generated with a series aptly titled: Ideas for Cities.
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Congratulations to CEOs for Cities partner and President of The Ohio State University, Gordon E. Gee for being named the best college president in the country by TIME magazine. With a view that higher education is a catalyst for economic development, Gee sees the recession as a time for reinvention and believes that land-grant schools will lead the way through a culture of innovation and their willingness to change. We also commend our partners Dr. Michael Crow of Arizona State University and Dr. Eduardo Padrón of Miami Dade College who were included in TIME’s The 10 Best College Presidents list.
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New Study Shows More Walkable Homes Are Worth More
August 18, 2009
CHICAGO - Though housing values are still slow to rebound from the collapse of the real estate market, a new analysis from CEOs for Cities reveals that homes in more walkable neighborhoods are worth more than similar homes in less-walkable neighborhoods, pointing to a bright spot in the residential real estate market. The report, “Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in U.S. Cities” by Joseph Cortright, analyzed data from 94,000 real estate transactions in 15 major markets provided by ZipRealty and found that in 13 of the 15 markets, higher levels of walkability, as measured by Walk Score, were directly linked to higher home values. “Even in a turbulent economy, we know that walkability adds value to residential…
