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…

Toni Griffin, a featured panelist at the upcoming CEOs for Cities Urban Leaders Summit in Detroit November 8-9, is the focus of a Q&A in Architect. 

Toni spoke of the limits of government and the benefit of small scale projects to writer Fred Bernstein.  "Government can make some transformative…

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.…

The things that make a city delightful -- like parks, historic sites, museums and beaches - disproportionally attracted highly educated individuals and experienced faster housing price appreciation, according to "City Beautiful," a paper published this month by Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia economists Gerald A. Carlino and Albert…