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VELOCITY Live
Posted by Sheila Redick on September 14, 2009 |
We're in Grand Rapids with 40 urban change agents today to launch VELOCITY, a movement to reimagine, reinvent and revitalize cities. We'll be posting video, photos, sketches, blog entries and anything else we come up with to tell the story of the future of cities. Check out our VELOCITY home page at www.ceosforcities.org/velocity.
VELOCITY Food for Thought
Posted by Sheila Redick on September 10, 2009 |
How can cities deliver a new and much-sought after American good life that is both sustainable and delightful to citizens?
That question will be at the center of a two-day creative salon of 40 select experts from a variety of fields held in Grand Rapids on Sept. 14-15, which will launch VELOCITY, a movement to imagine and cultivate the best future for our cities and city living.
To jumpstart the thinking on VELOCITY, our team developed a brief framing piece that demonstrates how cities are the best and most logical place for a new American dream to be realized. Read it here. And if you haven't read it, check out Carol Coletta's blog post on GOOD that sets the stage for the movement – why we’re doing it and what we hope to accomplish.
In the coming days, we'll share a link to a dynamic home page for VELOCITY that will aggregate photos, tweets and blogs from salon participants in real time and will later feature syntheses of the conversations and big ideas that develop over the two days in Grand Rapids.
Stay tuned. There is much more to come.
CEOs for Cities to Launch VELOCITY
Posted by Sheila Redick on September 09, 2009 | News
CHICAGO – In a push to accelerate solutions to tackle our nation’s most pressing challenges while delivering a much-sought after new American dream for citizens, CEOs for Cities will launch VELOCITY, a national movement to re-imagine, reinvent and revitalize American cities.
"Its purpose is to create an energizing agenda for next generation cities and nurture the initiatives needed to advance that agenda. We want to pull it all together in a way that defines a new aspirational lifestyle for Americans, one that eventually becomes the ‘new normal,’” said Carol Coletta, president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, a national network of urban leaders from the philanthropic, business, education, civic and public sectors dedicated to building and sustaining the next generation of great American cities.
The VELOCITY movement begins with a two-day creative salon of 40 select national experts from a variety of fields and hosted by community and business leaders in Grand Rapids on Sept. 14-15.
The VELOCITY salon, which is invitation only, will produce a compelling narrative with a set of clear, shared principles for the next generation of great American cities along with ideas and support for a series of existing and emerging experiments that will deliver a…
GOOD Magazine: The Future of Cities
Posted by Sheila Redick on August 25, 2009 |
As a preview to the work CEOs for Cities is launching on the future of cities next month at our VELOCITY salon in Grand Rapids, GOOD Magazine asked for a primer piece, which was published late last week on the GOOD blog. It's capturing quite a bit of attention in the Twitter world (both Richard Florida and Steve Case tweeted it), and it's showing up all over the blogosphere.
The interest and comments it is generating indicate that we're on to something big, exciting and much-needed for cities. More to come.
Read the piece here.