Monthly Archive:: August 2003
Investing in the large-scale workplace: While much of the focus in CoolTowns is in providing workplaces for
10,000 happier employees: BellSouth, one of Atlanta’s largest employers, is building three workplaces for 10,000
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The distributed, decentralized workplace: How’s this sound if you have a current 9-5 job: Monday: –
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The future workplace: A national workforce survey this month reveals a desire for the evolution
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Investing in the Gen X Town: How do you do it without busting the Gen X piggy bank?
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Designing the Gen X urban village: Affordability: Design smaller-sized 4-6 story unfinished loft-style units (like these here by
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What is Gen X looking for in a home?: Something less than $150,000 in the inner city or near an outer
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What is Gen X looking for in a town?: It should be clear from yesterday’s blog: Jobs, affordability, entertainment. Jobs, affordability,
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Where is Gen X moving to?: Well, since most Gen Xers are single/divorced (over 70%), they sure aren’t
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Investing in a town with invisible technology: Fiber optics: There are currently about a hundred communities (older listing) that
Free wireless internet for all – on Newbury Street: There’s already a well-established market for going wireless (making technology invisible) at
CoolTowns start with fiber optics, not freeways: In the industrial age, the basic infrastructure is a road network with
Broadband = quality of life, jobs: Understanding that people will be more apt to use technology they don’t
CoolTown’s invisible technology: CoolTowns are most definitely state of the art, and that means incorporating
Investing in Experience Towns: Using the Experience Town steps, here’s how an investment group looks to
Steps to an Experience Town and beyond: The economic steps to achieving an Experience Town can be compared with
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The Experience Town: One CoolTown goal is for its residents to exclaim, “Now this is
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The Experience Economy: We’ve gone from an agricultural economy, to manufactured goods, to services. What’s
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Even better than a main street: There’s no question the entrepreneurial creatives won’t frequent shopping malls and strip
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Vision of the next generation university town: Today’s popular university trends described in yesterday’s blog hint at the future
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