Leadership & Management

Development in Mozambique

 

While Mozambique’s economic indicators signal triumphant growth, it is clear on the ground that growth in GDP is not the same as development. Billions in investment won't help a population when its benefits are restricted to small elite.[read more]

Helsinki Green Lease

Green leasing news here in North America has been generally hard to come by thus far in 2013, but some interesting activity continues abroad. These foreign transactions involving environmental obligations are instructive for us to consider.[read more]

new urban planning for Asia?

To Huang, global warming and the energy crisis go hand in hand. He believes that China needs to go toward a transit-oriented and sustainable urban form. High speed rail oriented city clusters (or TOD, transit oriented development) are his goal for China.[read more]

traffic in Nairobi

In Kenya’s capital, the informal sector is closely tied to the formal economy. As the city heads toward world-class status, policymakers will need to make careful decisions about how best to accommodate the informal sector.[read more]

veggie swap

Beyond the act of growing, eating and community building, the project also aims to teach people about carbon-free food storage as well as composting and food waste recycling.[read more]

Vietnamese farmers

New Orleans' Vietnamese community of fishermen was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and then the Deepwater Horizon debacle but found ways to come together and come back with sustainable urban farming.[read more]

Fundrise's Ben Miller

Ben Miller testified to the House Committee on Small Business friday. Watch as he describes his experience gaining regulatory approval for Fundrise investment offerings.[read more]

promoting civic engagement

While Robert Putnam argued that the growth of large cities weakened civic engagement in the US, new data suggests that strong educational and religious organisations within a city can reverse that pattern.[read more]

urbanization

How do we deal with the neighborhoods and suburbs that have become notorious for being environmentally unfriendly?[read more]

how cities shape us

Have we designed our communities in such a way that we are contributing to the obesity epidemic and other health problems? This infographic illustrates some of the findings from a recent Pew Research study.[read more]

Gezi Park

Two years after the Arab Spring events we are witnessing another similar uprising in a large urban plaza filled with protestors of varying backgrounds seeking potentially disparate outcomes but gathering in the same place nonetheless.[read more]

Boulder, Colorado

Parking revenues are used as an economic development tool for downtown Boulder, paying for pedestrian and street improvements in the area and helping create a vibrant destination for visitors.[read more]