The Michigan Prosperity Agenda is a monthly radio show that focuses on how to make Michigan communities better places to live, work and play.

The topic of the March episode was the role of talent in placemaking, and our President and CEO Carol Coletta was an invited guest.… more

The L.A. Times featured this terrific review of NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s keynote remarks at last week’s L.A. StreetSummit at Occidental College.

Janette, who is responsible for 6,000 miles of streets and highways, nearly 800 bridges, 1.3 million street signs, 300,000 streetlights and 12,000 signalized intersections, told the… more

A group of ambitious volunteers is committed to making Austin a pilot community for one of Google's planned gigabit network demonstrations. This network, which will be 1005 fiber optic, completely open and boast speeds up up to one billion bits per second, sounds impressive, but we're just as impressed… more

For anyone who wonders why Portland is such a lure to young creative types, D.K. Row of the Oregonian attempts to explain.

"Portland's a paradise for creative types, who can live cheaply, surrounded by garlands of lush greenery, life-enhancing amenities such as light rail and too many artisanal indulgences… more

This is the subject of a recent policy brief by Ed Glaeser and William Kerr.  Published by the Rappaport Institute/Taubman Center, the brief links entrepreneurship and regional economic growth.  And to encourage entrepreneurship, the authors have four pieces of advice for urban leaders:

(1) Investing… more

Our President and CEO Carol Coletta was in Dallas this week where she spoke of the shift in housing demands away from suburbia at the 11^th annual meeting of the North Texas Housing Coalition. The leaders of the new economy – the young, college-educated and highly mobile members of… more

Once again, Harvard professor Ed Glaeser makes a persuasive case that the anti-urban bias of federal spending and policy continues.

Writing in The Boston Globe, Ed asserts that "the billions of dollars being spent on infrastructure across the nation
provide… more

All eyes are on Detroit, and so are ours. This week CEOs for Cities traveled to the Motor City to co-host the national Opportunity Dividend Summit with United Way for Southeastern Michigan, which serves a six-county area in… more

Complete College America, an organization focused on increasing college completion by focusing on state policy change, has just launched a 17-state alliance dedicated to achieving President Obama's 2020 goal of having the world's best-educated adult population.  It is exciting to have states tackling this ambitious goal alongside the… more

What is the recipe for success in this great diet?

Getting the whole city involved to collectively lose weight.  And it looks like it’s achieving some great results.

In response to the obesity epidemic in America, Mayor Mick Cornett put Oklahoma City ‘on a diet’ in December 2007, launching this… more