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Promoting Community Development through Visual Arts: Skid Row Los Angeles
Photo from Los Angeles Poverty Department Visual arts help to create new narratives and give ways to “re-think” many issues affecting impoverished communities. Skid Row Los Angeles has the largest...
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Artists: The Urban Crusaders
Photo from Market Wired Even America’s most struggling cities are showing signs of resurgence. In increasingly larger numbers, corporations are choosing to move their offices away from the silence of...
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Take a Second Look at Detroit
Guest Contribution by Trina Shanks, Paula Allen-Meares, Larry Gant & Rachel Williams Photo from Buzz Feed The City of Detroit has been in the news lately, mostly in ways that make it seem like the...
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Transportation: Who Is Responsible?
Photo from flickr user Complete Streets The state of the nation’s transportation infrastructure continues to be at the forefront of national dialogue. With the dwindling funds from Washington, state...
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Artists: The Urban Crusaders
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Making Historic Preservation Economically Viable: Heritage Tourism
Photo from Historic Fresno Historic Preservation + Tourism = ? On the most basic level, historic preservation is a way to embrace the unique development of a community and serves as a vital...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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Making Historic Preservation Economically Viable: Heritage Tourism
Photo from Historic Fresno Historic Preservation + Tourism = ? On the most basic level, historic preservation is a way to embrace the unique development of a community and serves as a vital...
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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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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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