Last week on Urban Omnibus, Vishaan Chakrabarti penned an exceptional essay on the impact of unchecked materialism on the future of American leadership and prosperity. 

With his timely, tongue-in-cheek title, “Spill, Baby, Spill,” Chakrabarti unflinchingly blames America's lack of self-discipline and introspection for its oil dependency, sprawl and…

Last week, Richard Florida explained to Smart City why he believes the economic crash will change our entire way of life in America. It is the premise of his newest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. Just as suburbanization propelled…

All eyes are on Detroit, and so are ours. This week CEOs for Cities traveled to the Motor City to co-host the national Opportunity Dividend Summit with United Way for Southeastern Michigan, which serves a six-county area in…

Read The Big Fix in Sunday NYT Magazine, and you'll find that the answer to our economic woes is more college graduates.  Yes, that's right.  It's the Talent Dividend, exactly what we've been saying.  And it's worth $124 billion to the nation... every single year.

Note writer David Leonhardt's conclusion:

The New York Times declares our love affair with the shopping mall is rocky.  But not for the reasons you think.

As reporter David Segal puts it, "We are reliably informed that whatever part of the economic crisis can’t be pinned on Wall Street — or on mortgage-related financial…

Congress for the New Urbanism CEO John Norquist warns the President-elect on the pitfalls of moving without consideration on the portion of the economic stimulus package calling for new roads and bridges. He writes:

With six weeks to go before he moves into the White House, Barack Obama is…

The House Appropriations Committee has released information on the proposed economic stimulus package that has the following as its focus:

• Clean, Efficient, American Energy
• Transforming our Economy with Science and Technology
• Modernizing Roads, Bridges, Transit and Waterways
• Education for the 21st Century
• Tax Cuts to Make Work Pay and…