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Zimpher’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....
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A 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...
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What 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...
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To 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...
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How 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,...
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Tame 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...
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The 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...
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Tackling 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...
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The 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...
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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...
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The 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...
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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...
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