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Digitizing the Public Sphere
Photo via Arian Zwegers Thousands of years ago, the public square was created as the original marketplace; with the influx of people, goods and ideas, it evolved to be a bustling center of human...
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Lee Fisher and Joe Cortright Discuss Urban Reading on the Huffington Post
Photo via Horia Varlan Last week on the Huffington Post, CEOs for Cities’ Lee Fisher and Joe Cortright reviewed three books for those of us who love cities. The first book, The New Geography of Jobs...
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Skills Development in Post-Recession Years
Photo by Jorge Lascar While closing the gap is important for getting more citizens across America employed, is it a worthwhile investment when our economy has been hit hard and jobs more scarce? It...
View ArticleFinding Fearless: the Search for America’s Most Fearless Changemakers Begins!
In order to find solutions to the chronic and complex social challenges we face as a society, we must Be Fearless. And we have a hunch that there are thousands of concerned citizens who have let go of...
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Bridging the Gap
Photo by John Picken While unemployment rates are at about 8.1%, we are finding that the problem is not always that the jobs aren’t there—it’s that our workforce doesn’t have the skills needed to fill...
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Ten Creative Ideas for Energizing Our Streets
We all know that walking has many advantages over driving—it costs less, it burns more calories, and we get to see the world in a way that is much less rushed, properly taking in our surroundings....
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Strategies for City Success: A Webinar Series
CEOs for Cities is pleased to announce a six-part webinar series titled “Strategies for City Success.” This series, designed to support the efforts of cities participating in the Talent Dividend...
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Strategies for City Success: A Webinar Series
CEOs for Cities is pleased to announce a six-part webinar series titled “Strategies for City Success.” This series, designed to support the efforts of cities participating in the Talent Dividend...
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How Colleges are Reviving Downtown
Photo by Nicholas I. Emenhiser Downtown college campuses are a popular trend to follow for talent retention and galvanizing downtown activity. As this trend grows and becomes more successful across...
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How Colleges are Reviving Downtown
Photo by Nicholas I. Emenhiser Downtown college campuses are a popular trend to follow for talent retention and galvanizing downtown activity. As this trend grows and becomes more successful across...
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On Giving Thanks: Discussing Our Relationship with Cities
Photo via Dinner Series We are all thankful for many different reasons. This time of year we see an onslaught of status updates and tweets about why our friends, relatives, and peers are thankful: for...
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Wrestling With the Restless
Photo via Bob Vonderau Though the Brookings Institution recently published numbers revealing that Millenials are becoming even more mobile, the focus of planners and city officials has fallen on this...
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Getting into the Numbers: Empowering the City with Data
Photo via François Rejeté Like a machine, our cities are made up of a variety of moving parts—needing maintenance and upkeep to run properly. Our cars have convenient dashboards that alert us when the...
View ArticleLee Fisher on the City 2.0: TEDxDePaulU
Our President and CEO, Lee Fisher recently held a talk at TEDxDePaulU-- with a focus on the City 2.0. He explains why cities are the primary drivers of growth, and how change rests at the intersection...
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Modeling the City Incubator
Photo via Dennis Yang There have been a number of publications detailing the concept of the city as a startup. This is a useful framework for managing cities more efficiently and creatively. As we...
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Great Ideas from Around the World: And a Giveaway!
There are so many great initiatives, projects, and approaches to be found in cities all throughout our planet. We found a few to share with you, and would love for you to share some with us as well!...
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Visualizing the Global City
There is no doubt about it: Our world is changing. Oftentimes it is difficult to understand the intensity of these changes, how our decisions affect us, or have a proper sense of scale. Thankfully,...
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Visualizing the Global City
There is no doubt about it: Our world is changing. Oftentimes it is difficult to understand the intensity of these changes, how our decisions affect us, or have a proper sense of scale. Thankfully,...
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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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Matchmaking for Good: Crowdsourcing and Revitalization
Photo via Jason Paris “Right now, in your community, at this very moment, there is someone who is dreaming about doing something to improve his or her lot,” Ernesto Sirolli wrote on the rebirth of...
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