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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAligning 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTackling 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTame 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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleZimpher’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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCity 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...
View ArticleCity 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...
View ArticleZimpher’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....
View ArticleRepurposing 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHomeless 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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