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Entries from November 2009

Trendwatching.com has named Urbany a top ten trend of 2010.  As Trendwatching puts it, "Urban culture is the culture. Extreme urbanization, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and far beyond will lead to more sophisticated and demanding consumers around the world."  And demanding consumers lead to innovation. 

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While regionalism might look good on paper, in practice it leaves much to be desired.  Carol Coletta discusses the pitfalls of being place agnostic in this blog entry featured on GOOD.is.

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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… more

Pittsburgh Councilman and CEOs for Cities member Bill Peduto fired back at Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's plans to tax the city's college students to fill budget gaps.  While the mayor is looking for new revenue, Councilman Peduto says this is not the place to get it.  Here are his comments… more

Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010,  the annual analysis issued by the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, surveyed more than 900 industry experts who concluded that the prospects for investment are much stronger for smart growth than they are for sprawl. This is consistent with other… more

Our colleague Rob Forbes, founder of Design within Reach and at work on an exciting new urban project, tells The New York Times why parks and public space matter.

 

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