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Growing Creative Community Gives Galveston an Austin Vibe

If you want to protect the creative class and make sure that they’re invested in a community and can stay put in a community, home ownership is the way to do that.

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What is Affordable Housing? Cities and Anchors: Building Inclusive Prosperity Together

Inclusive prosperity suggests that equity and affordability concerns are central to a city’s development, and points to models of success in business and government.

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Amazon-NYC Reversal Will Aid PPPs in Other Cities

Amazon’s nullification of plans to build a second headquarters in New York holds lessons for urban economic development.

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The Green New Deal? It’s Already Happening in Our Communities.

Cities large and small are stepping up their efforts to combat climate change and cope with its impact. There’s much that they can do.

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Buenos Aires: A Creative City?

Buenos Aires has been through a lot of transformations in its history.  If any global city is well-positioned to make the most of an Art Basel Cities, it is Buenos Aires.

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Defining Lynchburg

Economic development 101 is about telling your story to the right stakeholders and having a clear message about who you are and what you are and what your value proposition is.

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Are Dockless Scooters Here to Stay?

Cities have to address questions about safety and congestion, including where scooters will be parked and stored. It can’t just be the Wild West.

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Making Electric Scooters Work for Cities

Just as cities partner with industry in other sectors, calculated, careful, regulated partnerships for scooters hold the most promise.

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Scale, Flexibility, Partnerships, & Identity: How Cities Become Centers for Innovation

Looking toward strategic, deliberate innovation and inclusivity, small and mid-sized cities can become innovation centers that last.

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Jersey City’s Tech Transformation

The evolution of Jersey City is a case study in how other small and medium-sized cities can build themselves into tech hubs.

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