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Historic Preservation and the Identity of a City
Photo from flick user JasonParis Each and every city is unique. The distinctiveness of a city lends to the idea that each city has its own separate identity. The identity of a city largely depends on...
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Re-Imagining America through the Lens of Municipal Innovation
Photo from CNNMoney The Post-Industrial-Knowledge-Service Economy Rising out of the depths of the Great Recession, we are living in turbulent and fiscally uncertain times. We’re trapped between...
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Youngstown: A Shrinking City with Big Ideas
Photo from Model D Media “Here in Youngstown. Here in Youngstown. My sweet Jenny I’m sinking down. Here darlin’ in Youngstown.” Bruce Springsteen’s folk ballad Youngstown describes the rise and fall...
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Terroir and the Distinct City
Photo from flickr user Steven Depolo Craft beer has recently boomed in popularity across the United States with unique ingredients taking main stage. Often a brewery utilizes local ingredients and...
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Anchoring Success in the Urban Core
Photo from flickr user JohnE777 The way that a city is made has drastically changed in recent decades. The post-World War II narrative of rapid suburbanization on the rural frontier fueled by...
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Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities: Preparing for an Urbanized World
Photo from The International Society for Presence Research Corporations are finding themselves in an increasingly globalized and urbanized world. As the world's population continues to migrate to...
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Community Spirit Matters
Community spirit matters. It brings us together to accomplish big goals and overcome serious challenges. What is amazing is that community spirit is often grounded in the smallest actions. Actions...
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The Transformation of Space into Place
Photo from The Atlantic Cities The transformation of spaces into creative and vibrant places is a current trend in the 21st century. The Internet is full of success stories detailing how cities, in...
View ArticleMeeting Interview: Jay Byers - CEO, Greater Des Moines Partnership
At our National Meeting next month, Jay Byers - CEO for the Greater Des Moines Partnership - will participate in the City Success Stories Lightening Round. He will share how the Partnership serves...
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Talent Dividend Webinar Series
CEOs for Cities is pleased to announce a three-part fall webinar series designed specifically to meet the needs of cities participating in the Talent Dividend Network and Talent Dividend Prize...
View ArticleSmart Cities and the Internet of Everything
The Foundation for Delivering Next-Generation Citizen Services Recently our friends from Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities Initiative sent us an an IDC-authored Citizen Services White Paper. white...
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The Smartest Cities in America
With 40 million users from 180 countries, Lumosity is the leading online brain training program designed to improve core cognitive abilities such as memory, attention and fluid intelligence. Based on...
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Call for Presentations: Historic Preservation in America’s Legacy Cities
Historic Preservation in America’s Legacy Cities An Interdisciplinary Convening Hosted by The Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and The Cleveland Restoration Society June...
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Engagement Through Arts
Ideas, connections and innovation are the ultimate resources in today’s world. Figuring out how we can facilitate these very things to bolster the cultural and creative capital of a city is critical....
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2013 National Meeting
2013 National Meeting Summary Grand Rapids, MI | Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2013 CEOs for Cities’ 2013 National Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan gathered over 320 cross-sector civic CEOs and changemakers...
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Homeless for the Holidays
Authored by Andre Shashaty 1.17 million school kids have no home, U.S. says. Most Americans will enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in the comfort of their own home. But for more than 1.17 million children,...
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The Power of City Dividends
Lee Fisher recently reflected on his travels to cities accross the country as President and CEO of CEOs for Cities in a blog post for Code for America. In his travels, he's learned about the Power of...
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A New Name / A New Look
Our newsletter has a new name and a new look that better reflects who we are and what we do. The new name is derived from our signature work known as City Dividends. City Dividends Making Small...
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Repurposing Urban Roadways for More Than Just Cars in the Midwest
Photo from flickr user citymaus Cities throughout the United States are redesigning their roadways to accommodate multiple means of transportation. One of the major push/pull factors of alternative...
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City Valentines
If cities gave out Valentines, what would they say? We took a quick stab at it-- so you can share or give them to the thought leaders and city advocates in your life! What would your City Valentine...
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The Bicycle: The Simple Tool for 21st Century Urban Sustainability
Authored by Christopher Berggren As Americans grapple with a wide range of societal problems like obesity and other health issues, traffic gridlock and reduced family time, and socially isolated...
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Zimpher’s Work Earns Presidential Praise
Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor of the State University of New York and immediate past Board Chair for CEOs for Cities, was called “Obama’s favorite college leader” in an article published last week....
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A Cycle of Positive Development
Higher education is considered by some to be the ivory tower: a sector so removed from the rest of society that it had its own rules and agenda, where theory is more important than practice and...
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What States Should Do to Keep Their Cities Out of Bankruptcy
To head off problems before they become crises, states need to monitor their local governments' finances and borrowing practices. By Susan K. Urahn, Executive Vice President of the Pew Charitable...
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To Make Your Community Healthier, Make It Denser
By David Dixon FAIA, Leader, Stantec's Urban Places Group In the wake of 9/11, author Stephen Johnson wrote in Wired that "density kills" and advocated turning to the decentralized vision of Frank...
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How to Leverage Design to Build the Digital City
By Michael Martin, Place-Based Innovation Lead, HD MADE I left my job as a city planner and joined a digital creative agency. Why? Because I am certain that to make our future cities versatile,...
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Tame Your Data With Metrics and Dashboards
By Ryan Stanton, Smart Cities Leader, Schneider Electric From big data to open data, the discussion of digital data is a hot topic for cities right now. And for good reason, digital data promises to...
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Tackling Low Wages and Gentrification in a Livable City
By Jay Walljasper Asheville traveled pretty far down the same path as most American cities in the 1970s and 80s with a dwindling downtown and booming suburbs. All the boarded up buildings gave rise to...
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The CEO As Urban Statesman: Harnessing the Power of CEOs to Make Cities Thrive
By Sam Williams, Business City Partnerships Metro cities are the drivers of our nation’s economy and will contain 80% of the population by 2020. They are complex geographic, social, political and...
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Aligning Economic Incentives to Create REAL Smart Growth
By Rick Rybeck, Director, Just Economics If smart growth is so smart, how come there’s so much dumb growth? Economic incentives for sprawl are partly to blame. If we understand the economic...
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