Times of great challenges also present great opportunities. As we face great challenges, from mounting unemployment to polarization of citizens to climate change, cities offer our best hope for creative solutions. The path to our nation’s success runs right through cities, but to get there requires strategic decisions now on…

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…

Time leads this week with a cover titled "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell -- and how it can rise again."  It is the beginning of a year-long series on Detroit from multiple angles by magazines in the Time stable.  The piece is generally fair, blaming the…

Nicolai Ouroussoff must have been eavesdropping on my week.  His column in today's NYT was headlined "Reinventing America's Cities:  The Time Is Now."  Truer words have never been written.

"We long for a bold urban vision," he wrote.  "With their crowded neighborhoods and web of public services, cities are…

In the coming decade Tampa Bay is expecting a huge wave of Baby Boomers to roll into the region.  Anticipating this trend, CreativeTampaBay's Deanne Roberts and Michelle Bauer (both CEOs for Cities network partners) are already strategizing on how to capitalize on this impending opportunity for their city.  

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