Under the leadership of Eduardo Padron, Miami Dade College President and CEOs for Cities partner, Miami Dade College released a game-changing scholarship program today. The community college will offer a full scholarship to any newly enrolled student from Miami-Dade county with over a 3.0 high school GPA beginning in fall…

According to a recent study by Americans for the Arts, investment in the arts enhances the economic climate of cities and increases quality of life: the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity annually and is responsible for 5.7 million full-time jobs in the United…

Frank Gehry’s recently built New World Symphony Building, the venue for the upcoming Miami Brain Trust, received praise in the New York Times for its accessibility and openness. The New World Symphony Building, which “is the centerpiece of a 15-year effort to rejuvenate a depressed area of Miami Beach,”…

With the 2010 Census now published, stories about how we’ve fared in the first decade of the 21st century are popping up everywhere.

In Miami, where key demographic indicators held steady since 2000, education indicators are the big story. A December 18 Miami Herald article reveals the Miami-Dade metro…

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz's ambitous  and comprehensive plan to reshape his city into one that is pedestrian friendly, offers a mix of uses and is less car-centric passed 4-1 on the final reading tonight.  That's good news for the city and property owners who would like to see their property…

A new forecast commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Mayors predicts heavy job losses in the nation's major cities and the metro areas they anchor.  (That's not surprising since that's where most of our citizens and most of our jobs are.) 

New York is expected to lose…

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, who has been mentioned as a possible choice of the Obama administration to head the Office of Urban Policy, has been named to U.S. News and World Report's list of Best Leaders of 2008.  He shares the honor with Jeffrey Sachs, Stephen Spielberg, Amory Lovins…

Well, travelers favorite cities.  Ranking the 25 top U.S. cities in 45 categories, 155,000 travelers (or readers of Travel and Leisure) cast their votes and here's a sampling of what they said:

While Charleston and Austin have the friendliest people, Seattle and Minneapolis/St. Paul have the brainiest.  Unfortunately, LA…

Is one more Lowe's worth it?  Miami-Dade commissioners have overridden a veto by Mayor Carlos Alvarez of their decision to ignore the urban development boundary and approve a Lowe's beyond the buffer that stands between developed Dade County and the Everglades.  Now the state has entered the fray,…

If you weren't able to capture all the great insights from our meeting presenters, you can download panelist slide shows in PDF format. Click the links below to access the presentations: Kip Bergstrom's Thinking About Cities and Regions as Innovation Networks Brian Boyle's presentation on The New Urban…