Reacting to Monday's article in the Tennessean about Driven Apart, CEOs for Cities' critique of the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report, the Daily News Journal published "Getting around must be smarter," an editorial calling for Rutherford County to "get serious about mass transit solutions and…

The Michigan Prosperity Agenda is a monthly radio show that focuses on how to make Michigan communities better places to live, work and play.

The topic of the March episode was the role of talent in placemaking, and our President and CEO Carol Coletta was an invited guest.…

If you’re thinking about the future of mobility in your city, see these excerpts from the forum “Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around” held in D.C. last week by the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.

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it's a trend the Chicago Tribune documented earlier. Now the NY Times has got the story of how families are making downtown Chicago their second home.  According to the NYT, "Chicago has become a second- and vacation-home hot spot, fueled by its market of new condos and converted high-rise…

For telecommuters, working at home is isolating, and Starbucks isn't cutting it for doing real business.  "Sometimes that's great, but if you're on a business call and the cappuccino machine goes off in the background, it can be a distraction," says Jeff Kubarych, a co-founder of Soundview Coworking.  There are many business…

Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, is a delightful maverick who insists that any city can be transformed. In an interview with CNN, Lerner insisted that "every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.  All you…