Leadership & Management

Rust Belt foodies

Talent leaving Chicago would skip over the Rust Belt and land in a coastal metro. Over the last decade, that pattern has changed as native daughters and sons returned home after cutting their teeth in a Big City.[read more]

Jaime Lerner

The architect and urban planner Jaime Lerner – former Mayor of Curitiba for three terms and former Governor of Paraná for two terms – regards large urban center problems with a unique point of view.[read more]

clean water

In other parts of the world, low-cost, easily implemented water purification methods may be the key to battling waterborne illness. Read on to find out what is being done to increase access to clean water around the world.[read more]

 

a new urban planning model?

 

We in the modern world need not be bound to the primitive tools of the early surveyor, the primitive signal timings of the 1920s traffic engineer, or the primitive construction techniques of early carpenters.[read more]

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

For a small community with limited resources like Camino Island, the challenge then becomes how to do sustainable development in the face of climate change.[read more]

San Jose

The big question is whether or how the City of San Jose can once again become the center of life and commerce it once was, many decades ago, when Santa Clara County was rather sleepy and agricultural.[read more]

the author reflects on Downtown developments

 

We need to work our hardest at becoming a 24 hour city. I want to be able to walk out my door, come down into that beautiful skyline and be able to pick something to do without having to dig into the Facebook invites.[read more]

brain drain

Brain drain is a positive indicator. When an individual leaves her hometown, she benefits. The community did an excellent job educating its children. The best and brightest migrate.[read more]

Toronto/shutterstock

Toronto’s greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 15% from 1990 levels and per capita emissions have fallen by 26%. Meanwhile, the city has demonstrated that greenhouse gas emissions can shrink while a city grows.[read more]

suburban growth/shutterstock

The "debate" could be more fruitful if everyone were just more honest and recognized not only the messiness of the real world, but stopped trying to fit one solution onto everyone else. Suburbia is not the answer. But neither is the "city."[read more]

infrastructure investment

Area residents agree that public infrastructure is deteriorating in southeast Michigan, but differ sharply on how to address the issue, according to a survey conducted in 2012.[read more]

Cairo's transport challenges

In large part, the city’s transport challenges are of its own making. In Cairo, 13 percent of the city’s transit is by private car, and cars are everywhere. They are either massively circulating, or parking on the streets.[read more]