CityVitals, CEOs Featured in Fast Company

Posted by on July 10, 2007

This month Fast Company features and article on "Fast Cities" that was developed in part from data in CEOs for Cities' CityVitals research as a source for its report.

"For all the challenges cities face--congestion, crime, crumbling infrastructure, environmental decay, plus occasional issues with basic civility--they are still where jobs and youth gather, where energy begets even greater energy, where talent masses and collides. Worldwide, the pace of urbanization is only accelerating. This year, for the first time, more of the earth's population will live in cities than in rural areas--a cool 3.2 billion, according to United Nations estimates. "In a world where we can now work anywhere, we're tending to concentrate in fewer and fewer places," says Carol Coletta, president of CEOs for Cities, an advocacy group. "Smart people are choosing to live near smart people."

Read the full article here.