Richard Florida is back.

His latest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, came out last week and yesterday he sat down with Smart City to tell us what it’s all about.

Richard believes the key to cities’ economic success is…

Seventy years ago GM's Futurama generated a compelling vision that spawned a new American ideal of a spacious, car-centered good life. We now know that paradigm no longer provides opportunity, exacerbates climate change and is diminishing our quality of life.  It is simply not sustainable.

We now have an urgent…

In spite of the especially tough real estate market, this Chinatown condo building in Philadelphia sold out all of its units including ten commercial suites.  As the article explains "the target market was primarily first-generation Chinese, many of them business owners who had moved to the suburbs because…

We're in Grand Rapids with 40 urban change agents today to launch VELOCITY, a movement to reimagine, reinvent and revitalize cities.  We'll be posting video, photos, sketches, blog entries and anything else we come up with to tell the story of the future of cities.  Check out our VELOCITY home…

How can cities deliver a new and much-sought after American good life that is both sustainable and delightful to citizens? 

That question will be at the center of a two-day creative salon of 40 select experts from a variety of fields held in Grand Rapids on Sept. 14-15, which will…

As a preview to the work CEOs for Cities is launching on the future of cities next month at our VELOCITY salon in Grand Rapids, GOOD Magazine asked for a primer piece, which was published late last week on the GOOD blog. It's capturing quite a bit of attention…

CHICAGO – In a push to accelerate solutions to tackle our nation’s most pressing challenges while delivering a much-sought after new American dream for citizens, CEOs for Cities will launch VELOCITY, a national movement to re-imagine, reinvent and revitalize American cities.

"Its purpose is to create an energizing agenda for…