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Entries from April 2010

Richard Florida is back.

His latest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, came out last week and yesterday he sat down with Smart City to tell us what it’s all about.

Richard believes the key to cities’ economic success is… more

CEOs for Cities’ national meetings continue to be very rich learning opportunities.  While we don’t yet have the videotapes of Strategy Session 2010, our President and CEO Carol Coletta has shared some of the major ideas and observations she took away from our time in New York (not… more

When it's part of an alternative transportation system that puts $19 billion into New York City's economy each year.

In time for Earth Day, the New York City Department of Transportation released New York City's Green Dividend, a report by CEOs for Cities that, for the first time, aggregates the economic… more

This week in The Mile High City, creatives are mobilizing to strengthen the core vitality of their city as part of Create Denver. This fabulous video makes us wish we were there.

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If it works for NYC's Department of Transportation, why can't it work in other cities for other projects?

NYC is inviting nonprofit organizations to respond to an RFP to create neighborhood plazas for the city.  The trick is that the nonprofit must agree to operate and maintain the space.  That… more

TechCrunch recently published a letter from Google to the City Manager of Mountainview, CA. In it, the company's Vice President of Real Estate and Workplace Services made the case for zoning changes in the area known as North Bayshore, where Google is headquartered.

Currently, most of the area… more

Lou Glazer, President of Michigan Future, Inc. and presenter at our recent Opportunity Dividend Summit, blogs on the need for higher education and policy makers to focus on increasing completion rates.  As high schools have seen success through 90/90 goals (90% graduate from high school and 90% of… more