Entries tagged with Core Vitality
Education, Education and More Education
November 3, 2011
What is the most important factor shaping the success of cities today? According to Charles Bantz, Chancellor of IUPUI in Indianapolis, there are three: education, education and more education. Venture Richmond's Lucy Meade said innovation and creativity, which comes from people who are living, working and playing together from all…
Milwaukee on Talent
June 16, 2010
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Special Report on the city's urgent need for talent adds fuel to the Talent Dividend fire. As the article points out the Milwaukee region as a whole has an average college attainment rate when compared to the largest 50 metropolitan regions, however…
Agglomeration Economics
June 11, 2010
In The American (the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute), Ryan Streeter calls out the danger of outmoded political thinking that places cities solely on the agenda of the left. He offers three reasons:
- First, cities rather than states will increasingly drive national economies. States that recognize this…
The Infrastructure Imperative
May 27, 2010
The Urban Land Institute, with Ernst and Young, has released a new report on infrastructure called "Infrastructure 2010: Investment Imperative." Here is the imperative in a nutshell:
...America’s future prosperity, world economic standing and ability to accommodate over 100 million more people by 2050 depends directly on “bolstering…
Create Denver
April 15, 2010
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.
Googletopia or Just Good Planning?
April 12, 2010
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…
A Parking Success and City Crisis
December 14, 2009
Over the past 50 years, Hartford’s leaders have successfully achieved what they thought would bring greater prosperity to downtown: more parking.
The University of Connecticut’s Center for Transportation and Urban Planning, however, has revealed a frightening picture in its study of the cumulative effect on the city of providing parking.
…Big-Box Retail Re-used
August 27, 2008
Once home to Wal-Mart in Wisconsin Rapids, a 120,000-square-foot big-box retail shell is now home to the Centralia Center for Senior Citizens. The town has revived and reinvented this empty space that threatened to leave a hole in the middle of their community and the neighboring shopping area.
…RSVP for San Diego Strategy Session
February 5, 2009
CEOs for Cities Announces Next National Meeting
Strategy Session 2009: The Upside of Down
San Diego, CA, March 18-20
Hosted by CEOs for Cities and the University of California San Diego
Hard times force us to re-consider everything.
What are the opportunities for your city to innovate now…