Education, Education and More Education
What is the most important factor shaping the success of cities today? According to Charles Bantz, Chancellor of IUPUI in Indianapolis, there are three: education, education and more education. Venture...
View ArticleConference Highlights Importance of Increasing Degree Attainment Rates
Lee Fisher, President and CEO of CEOs for Cities, recently spoke at the National Summit on Near Completion. Hosted by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, the summit focused on the importance of...
View ArticleCould Building Parks Fix the Real Estate Market?
A new initiative by the Speedwell Foundation believes so. According to an article in Atlantic Cities, the project called “Redfields to Greenfields” looks at what could happen if empty commercial sites...
View ArticleBuilding Density with Good Design
The benefits of cities are clear, but the appropriate way to quantify density is not. An article in The Atlantic Cities discusses measuring density by people per square mile. The measurement allows...
View ArticleCities Empower Citizen-generated Change
Cities are the center of the Occupy Wall Street movement. According to an article on Grist, Occupy Wall Street is using “urban public space as an open source laboratory for social change.” Cities have...
View ArticleInnovating America's Education System
Michael Crow, Arizona State University president and CEOs for Cities partner, wrote an op-ed piece about the state of higher education in the US that recently appeared in the Washington Post....
View ArticleLumina Committed to Latino College Attainment
The Lumina Foundation projects that by 2025 nearly half of the US workforce will be people of Latino descent. With a population of 50 million already living in the US, Latinos are the fastest-growing...
View ArticleHow Biking Can Save Cities Billions of Dollars in Health Expenses
Biking delivers environmental, health, and economic benefits. An article in GOOD cited a recent study in the journal of Environmental Health Perspectives that quantified monetary savings, including...
View ArticleMayor Nutter Announces Launch of Change By Us in Philadelphia
[Philadelphia, November 21, 2011] – Mayor Michael A. Nutter and the Mayor’s Office of Communications announced the launch of the ‘Change By Us Philly’ website. This website serves as an interactive,...
View ArticleDensity Prevails in Great Recession
The collapse of the housing market during the Great Recession illuminates the future landscape of America’s real estate market. A recent article in the New York Times confirms CEOs for Cities’ findings...
View ArticleA So-Called 'War' for the Streets of Chicago
This week, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed whose author, John McCarron, denounced Mayor Rahm Emanuel's vision for bicycle infrastructure and bus rapid transit, calling it an "undeclared war on...
View ArticleCities to Take the Lead on National Job Creation
Cities play a crucial role in moving the needle on the economy through job creation. At a time when the federal and state governments are often hyperpartisan and dysfunctional, its up to local...
View ArticleBrain-Hubs Attract Educated Workers
College-educated workers are valuable to the economies of cities. The Young and Restless attests to the large numbers of highly skilled workers flocking to city centers. According to an article in the...
View ArticleWalkable Neighborhoods in Demand
For many Americans, walkability plays a key role when choosing a community. An article in the New York Times discusses the rising prevalence of infrastructure for walking and biking in Long Island...
View ArticleCleveland's New Uptown
Cleveland’s major stakeholders are trying to reinvent the city after decades of decline and outmigration. A New York Times article details their efforts in University Circle and the Uptown arts and...
View ArticleEd Glaeser on Why Cities Matter
Calling it "a remarkable thing" that, given all of our choices about where to live, cities are so appealing, in this short video from CEOs for Cities' Fall National Meeting in Chicago, Harvard...
View ArticleCore Density and Its Effect on Population
Suburban sprawl may be contributing to the shrinking populations in post-industrial cities as much as the changing economy in those cities. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland released a new study...
View ArticleElection 2012: Who Determines Cities' Destinies?
Cities need to be able to control their own destinies. That's the message from Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett in this interview with NPR. "Candidates and Washington in general are not talking about...
View ArticleAkron Revitalizes Through Partnership
Akron, Ohio, the former Rubber Capital of the World, is utilizing its anchor institutions to revitalize its core. By uniting the University of Akron, three major hospitals, and Akron Public Schools,...
View ArticleCreative Class in Cities Key to Economic Strength
Engaging the Creative Class in cities is critical in sustaining the US economy. In a column in Business Insider, Richard Florida argues that the creative potential of humans is the most important...
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