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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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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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Transit-Oriented Development in Cleveland’s Urban Core
Photo via Institute for the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) As Cleveland’s inner city population has yet to stabilize, despite a massive influx of young professionals, the...
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Technology in (and out of) the Classroom
Photo via SJU Undergraduate Admissions The apple, long a ubiquitous symbol of education, may take on a new role as technology challenges and reinvents the physical classroom… unless of course you are...
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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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Startup Competition Fosters Culture of Innovation in Cleveland and Beyond
Photo via Flickr User DeclanTM Innovation in so many ways is seen as the key to driving economic growth in America’s cities. In fact, us here at CEOs for Cities truly believe that it is one of the...
View ArticlePerformance-Based Funding of Higher Education
The Center for American Progress just released a report titled, “Performance-Based Funding of Higher Education,” which investigates the “best practices” in six different states’ performance-based...
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Green Innovations in Boston
Our 2012 National meeting is coming up next month, and we wanted to showcase the city where it will be hosted! Here are some of the great things we've uncovered about green initiatives in Boston....
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How Cities are Leveraging Sustainable Innovations
Photo via dailymail.co.uk While yesterday’s blog post focused on innovative environmental designs generated in Boston, today's highlights many other cities throughout the nation and across the globe...
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Why Cities Should Plan for a Healthier Environment
Photo by Jimmy Benson We have all heard it before: Live Green. We are urged to recycle, to turn the lights out when we’re not in a room, and to drink from a reusable water bottle. These are all...
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