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.