Congratulations to Urban Next Summit presenter Brian Corrigan and his team at YesPleaseMore for being named one of the 2010 Mayor's Design Awards in Denver.…

Excerpts from a speech by CEOs for Cities President and CEO, Carol Coletta on the Washington D.C. creative economy.

Tell us how you really feel, Sean.

You may remember Sean Safford's presentation on community networks at the CEOs for Cities meeting in Chicago in 2007.  Since then Sean's book, Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown, has been published, explaining why loosely networked communities are more resilient than those…

Some quick lines from today's conversations...

"Creativity is the only inextinguishable resource we have."

There are 3 principles of the creative ecology from John Howkins: 

1.  Everyone is creative.
2.  Creativity needs freedom.
3.  Freedom needs markets.

Creativity does not equal the arts. Creativity is not the same as innovation.

Richard Florida insists that high gas prices are not the only thing driving the move back to cities.  In today's Globe and Mail, Richard writes that we are moving toward a new geographic order -- what geographers call "the spatial fix."  

"Suburbanization was the spatial fix…