The Importance of Being the Best
The Importance of Being Best is an often overlooked economic development tool. The magazine listings of “the best city in […]
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The 5 Ideas Every City Should Steal from Singapore
5 Ideas Every City Should Steal from Singapore, by Meera Senthilingam for CNN, is a great guide for city planners.
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation is a great guide for those interested in
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The Downtown Infill and Redevelopment Process
The Downtown Infill and Redevelopment Process is useful in enticing vision-consistent developers to invest in the downtowns of small cities
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More Employees; Fewer, More Flexible “Offices”
More Employees; Fewer, More Flexible “Offices” presents information about the current trend in office space utilization. Lisa Dilts, COMPSPRING, has
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Top 50 Cities for Global Trade
Top 50 Cities for Global Trade published by Global Trade Magazine presents the evolution of global cities. The article can
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Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis
Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis by Mark Hinshaw, [Planners Press, American Planning Association, 170 pages, 1999] was inspired by Neal Peirce’s
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Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World by Neal R. Peirce with Curtis W. Johnson and John Stuart Hall
Summary. Peirce, Johnson and Hall resurrect a concept from the past, the concept of city-states with a history that starts with
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Wicked Problems
Wicked problems is a term of art from the high tech world. Wicked problems are ones where the nature of
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Public Entrepreneurs: The Visionary Risk-Takers of an Entrepreneurial City
Public Entrepreneurs: The Visionary Risk-Takers of an Entrepreneurial City describes the role of the city officials and institutional leaders who