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Entries tagged with Denver

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.…

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.

Denver has nearly doubled its public transit ridership, despite the fact that planned light rail track additions have yet to be built.  How?

Warren Karlenzig’s article notes these factors:

Our friends at Congress for the New Urbanism have published a video for their CNU 17 conference featuring Carol Coletta.   Carol shares highlights from cutting-edge research commissioned by CEOs for Cities.  Carol is a plenary speaker at the conference.

Yesterday I made a quick trip to Denver to visit with mayors there for the Democratic National Convention.  I took a very early flight (The CTA is always interesting at 4 a.m., filled with workers headed to O'Hare.), so I had plenty of time to look around a city I…

As a big city mayor, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley pronounced himself pleased with the new Democratic ticket. As he told the Chicago Tribune, "It could be the first time in a long time that we had the top two officials coming from an urban environment and I'm not just…

As I prepare for the Urban Next Summit kicking off tomorrow in New Orleans, I can’t help but check out Forbes recent rankings of Best Cities for Young Professionals.

Looking at the 40 biggest metros in the U.S., Forbes bases its rankings on where the class of…