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Retail woes of Welsh city centre demonstrate increasing challenges facing UK high streets as they battle to survive Delete the scoop?
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Ideas, talent, skills, and density remain key contributors to the growth of America's metros. Why do some cites and metros grow faster and better than others? It's a subject of considerable debate. Some say growth is a product of innovation and productivity and others counter that growth is powered more by resources, home-building and extractive industries. Sometimes debates like these need a referee. That's where a new report on America's "Best-Performing Cities" released this year by the Milken Institute comes in. The Institute's "Best-Performing Cities index" is a comprehensive and objective metric of metro economic performance and represents an outcomes-based accounting of short and long-term changes in economic output, high-tech industry, jobs, and wages. Read the complete article for details on the rankings for large metros. Four of the top five metros are noted high-tech knowledge economy centers. San Jose tops the list, high-tech hot spots Austin takes second and Raleigh third, and Washington, D.C., comes in fifth place... Via Lauren Moss Delete the scoop?
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Modern urban culture also is spreading in the Bayou City. In what has to be a first, my colleagues at Forbes recently ranked Houston as America's “coolest city,” citing not only its economy, but its thriving arts scene and ...
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This 247,500-square-foot dry-dock space has been transformed into an educational facility, where several schools can mix together and exchange ideas.
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Great re-use of an old industrial building for the new function of education and innovation in the city of Rotterdam. Delete the scoop?
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We know cities make talent more productive, better to work in an urban area than a rural one.
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A short article linking studies on the effect of the productivity of supermarket workers and the rol of cities in improving talent, innovation and productivity. Delete the scoop?
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While Internet shopping empties out the high streets, it fills up the city streets with courier trucks. Several projects in the EU try to offer a solution for this new urban challenge. Are bike couriers or drop of boxes in supermarkets the solution?
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The plan is entitled, "Connect, Construct. Create." Mayor Alex Morse said the state officially approved two new redevelopment programs.The city will take some properties for tax title and auction them off to business developers.
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"The days when ordinary people sold their own produce and bought the produce of other ordinary people are long gone." "People need to be able to compete locally."
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It wasn’t too long ago that the term ‘Smart City’ was not on very many people’s radar screens, but recently, it has been more familiar, and people are understanding the concepts behind smart cities. A smart city uses information combined with technology to improve quality of life, reduce environmental impact, and decrease energy demand. This list of the smartest cities on the planet takes those factors into consideration, as well as the ‘smart’ plans the city might have for the future... Via Lauren Moss
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All the usual suspects, but still a good read. Always inspirational to read that change is possible and already happing around the world. 
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February 12, 12:26 PM
Great find from Peter Jasperse's blog and an inspirational read for those interested in building a smarter cities and environments since these cities have already started along the journey. Delete the scoop?
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Small towns were hit hard by the recession, but many were already struggling long before that. Delete the scoop?
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Seventy-nine percent of people living in developing countries don't have access to electricity.
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Security of Tenure for the Urban Poor - Huffington Post Nairobi is a thriving metropolis that unfortunately suffers from high levels of inequality and violence.
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After a successful 2012 competition which attracted 1,519 entries from 70 countries, Citymart is once again looking to award prizes to new urban ideas which aim to 'pilot the future'. 22 cities are... Delete the scoop?
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In his remarks, Donovan emphasized that at a time when the number of U.S.-based manufacturing jobs has decreased, urban planning has to address “postindustrial” development as well.
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Against tall odds, Dan Gilbert, the Quicken Loans chairman, is putting down money to revive a two-square-mile area that was once Detroit’s core. Delete the scoop?
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A few of the 886 proposals from the Knight Foundation's latest open government news challenge. This year, the Knight News Challenge has been soliciting project proposals to open and leverage government data anywhere at the national, state and local levels (in the U.S. and abroad). As of last week, 886 projects are vying for a share of the $5 million in funding, all in response to this question: "How can we make the places we live more awesome through data and technology?" Amid all of the submissions are innovations we've already encountered at Atlantic Cities: a favorite guerrilla wayfinding campaign from Raleigh, North Carolina; Code for America's playful StreetMix web app; the San Francisco-based Urban Prototyping Festival; and a community-driven transportation planning project based on the kind of data analytics we wrote about here. But that's barely scratching the surface of all the proposals that Knight has corralled. Visit the article link for a list of 12 ideas from the competition that are new and worth developing (with the applicants' description of their programs). On the 29th, Knight plans to announce a set of semifinalists, who will be invited to complete more detailed proposals. The final winners (there's no predetermined number of them) will then be announced in June... Via Lauren Moss 
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Innovative ideas on how to utilize open data and communication technology to enhance communities, engage citizens and empower local governments in a variety of ways... Delete the scoop?
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Things we know and things we don't
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Nice article, taking a step back and looking at several (in this case five) variables which govern economic succes of cities. Amongst others: location, transportation, good governance and economic diversity. A great read! Delete the scoop?
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Providing the poor and marginalized with employment is the best way to help them lift themselves out of poverty.
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It was an urbanist’s nightmare. On Feb. 1, a teenager was shot dead in the middle of a popular art gallery walk and street fair in Oakland, Calif.
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An interesting and frightening story how one of the main tasks of local government can result in financial detriment. This calls for a flexible and innovative approach, so that cities can expand and contract their availability of school buildings in response to the changing needs of the community.
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“Suburb” seems to have become a pejorative word when used by those who call themselves “urban.” The counter dismissive is those who find their housing ideal in the...
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Truly great places are not built from scratch to attract people from elsewhere; the best places have evolved into dynamic, multi-use destinations over time: years, decades, centuries. These places are reflective of the communities that surround them, not the other way around. Placemaking is, ultimately, more about the identification and development of local talent, not the attraction of talent from afar.
Places aren’t about the 21st century economy. They are about the people who inhabit and develop them. They are the physical manifestations of the social networks upon which our global economy is built. Likewise, Place-making is not about making existing places palatable to a certain class of people. It is a process by which each community can develop place capital by bringing people together to figure out what competitive edge their community might have and improve local economic prospects in-place. Via Lauren Moss
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"If your strategy for improving local economic prospects is to drink some other city’s milkshake, you won’t get very far. It’s economic cannibalization. To really grow an economy, opportunity has to be developed organically within each community, and that requires that people dig in and improve their neighborhoods, together, for the sake of doing so–not convincing Google to open a new office down the road." 
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Can our cities avoid an 'explosion of cars' and create sustainable transportation systems at the heart of denser urban development?
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The urban heat island effect—in which heat trapped by large-scale construction and paving cause a city to be several degrees warmer...
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Weekly picks by the author of inniatives to bring the development of smart cities forward. Delete the scoop?
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