Monthly Archive:: August 2006

World’s Best Cities’ to visit (Part 1): If you were looking to travel the world to discover and learn

Carlsbad, CA sure to attract the creative class…: …IF they continue to support more developments like Poinsettia Commons, a $55

People are downsizing their homes – and with style: Big is out. Small with style is in, and understandably so given
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Urban modular housing on a sliver of a site: While not exactly fitting in height-wise with the surrounding buildings, developer Scott

Can shopping environments be third places?: That’s the question answered by the Urban Land Institute, and the answer

Growing an historic small town center: Most of the 22,000 residents of Hudson, OH (30 minutes from Cleveland)

The definitive report on the built environment’s impact on public health: How does the planning of neighborhoods and cities affect your health? Thanks

Help! University needs town center immediately!: Of the accepted applicants to the University of Connecticut each year, about

$ Angelic crowdsourcing $: The last two entries covered crowdsourcing 101. Are you ready for crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing a trend into a community: Based on this chart spanning the last 15 years, the increasing %
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The ‘crowdsourcing’ economy: This website mentions customer-driven and mass customization as key to economic growth

Hillcrest, SD – an inclusive community that doesn’t need a sign: While towns and cities are putting up official signs (see yesterday’s entry)

“Welcome, we are building an inclusive community”: That’s the official sign you’ll see in sixty-eight cities across 28 states

The city most of the French prefer living in (not Paris): Yes it’s in France, and 65% of its citizens named Montpellier as

Economic Development and Smart Growth: Rarely are they mentioned in the same sentence, but it’s when smart

The race to be the first with wi-fi citywide: …and the winner is Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei just this summer completed its

Investing in center city benefits surrounding communities: If the nation’s economy is at stake, should cities and companies invest/locate

Attracting new residents downtown via the web: Our last entry focused on a model for attracting new residents to

One-stop shop for potential residents: In the last two days we looked at the Attracting the Young,
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Study: Attracting young adults to your city: Continuing a look at the study (profiled in the previous entry) that
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64% of young adults choose place over job: How important is it for cities to invest in their quality of
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Primer on perusing this website: With a quarter million page views last month, it may be a
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