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- Who's Your City: How Creative Class Cities Will Beat the Recession
- In this interview with BNET, Richard Florida explains why his latest book “Who’s Your City?” matters to workers during a recession and how a business's location affects not only the talent pool, but also its ability to innovate. ...
- Articles 2008-03-20
- Who's Your City: Top 10 Megaregions
- These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City? ...
- Articles 2008-03-19
- Who's Your City?: What Is a Megaregion?
- Forget the best cities to work in. Richard Florida envisions a world in which megaregions -- composed of several cities -- represent a new and powerful economic unit. Adapted from Florida's new book Who's Your City? Today, megaregions range in size from 10...
- Articles 2008-03-19
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- New Business Models for Aid and Development: New Partnerships for Sustainable Development
- The demographics of developing nations show exponential levels of unplanned urban growth. This brings huge infrastructural engineering challenges. The old models of simple rural water supply and sanitation schemes are not applicable in the densely populated unplanned urban communities that are rapidly appearing within developing cities. The complexity of retrofitting...
- White papers 2003-02-19
- The New Wealth Package: Generating Value in Distressed Urban Communities
- This paper applies arbitrage theory as a means of valuing community assets in urban low-income communities. Arbitrage is one of the principle capital market value formation tools. This tool is applied, in this paper, to valuing the wide range of assets that exist in low-income areas so that the potential...
- White papers 2002-09-30
- Filling in the Blanks
- The urban lifestyle is making a comeback as an increasing number of suburbanites, weary of long commutes and overcrowded roads, are migrating back into cities across the country. Also supporting this urban renewal are environmentalists trying to stop development of far-flung office parks, retail centers and housing communities, as well...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Economic Transition and Urban Health Care in China: Impacts and Prospects
- This paper has three primary objectives. First, it illustrates how economic transition from a centrally planned to market-oriented economy inevitably transforms the foundation of social protection policies. Economic reform affects China's urban health care through two primary channels. Second, it critically examines the potentials of current urban health reform initiatives...
- White papers 2001-09-11
- Social Bond Fund Helps Build Communities
- Bond funds are a natural fit for promoting community development. By buying CDs with community development banks and credit unions, the Domini Social Bond Fund is channeling investors’ money directly to where it can be put to work in struggling urban and rural communities. The community development banks and credit...
- White papers 2003-07-24
- Looking Back to Look Forward: What Can We Learn About Urban Development From Philadelphia's 350 Year History?
- This paper investigates the changing economic conditions that have buffeted Philadelphia over its long history and analyzes how and why it responded to those shocks in the ways it did. While heavily influenced in its focus by urban economics, this paper is a historical analysis at its core. Besides suffering...
- White papers 2005-05-02
- Twelve Lessons to Develop and Sustain Online Knowledge Communities
- The development of online communities is rapidly becoming one of the important tools in Knowledge Management. Online communities have been emerging steadily and rapidly since the early nineties. Initially these online communities were being developed outside the corporate world. More recently, however, they have also become an organization reality. The...
- White papers 2003-03-05
- Urban Insurance Issues
- Underwriting, the task of deciding what risks to insure allows insurers to discriminate between good and bad risks. Differences in prices for insurance must reflect expected differences in losses and expenses. When the risk of future losses increases or when rates are inadequate, insurers become more selective about the degree...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Building and Experiencing Community in Internet-Based Multiplayer Computer Games
- This study describes the virtual communities that operate inside and around online multiplayer computer games. Virtual communities formed around multiplayer computer gaming are a relatively new phenomenon, one which is constantly growing and developing. In addition, virtual multiplayer communities have not been much studied nor are they well understood yet....
- White papers 2004-02-12
- Representation of Urban Operations in Military Models and Simulations
- The US Military's involvement in urban operations has escalated significantly over the past several years. Though modeling and simulation (M&S) has played a large role in the development and refinement of Army tactics, techniques and procedures, current model research for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) is fragmented and inadequately...
- White papers 2001-11-14
- A GIS-Based Decision Support System For Brownfield Redevelopment
- Rapid growth in regions surrounding large metropolitan areas leads to the phenomenon of urban sprawl. In states like Michigan, land is being converted at a rate seven times greater than formerly used (and potentially contaminated) sites are being redeveloped. City governments now see these unused or abandoned areas as important...
- White papers
- The Impact Of Urban Growth Boundaries On Future Urbanization
- "The CURBA model was used with a series of GIS layers in this research project to predict future urban growth patterns and their impact on agricultural land use and a number of ecologically significant natural vegetation communities in Ventura County. Two GIS layers were used to depict past growth and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Net Communities in Brand Marketing
- Net communities were long the bane of manufacturers and retailers, which tried to keep their distance from these sites that they often saw as little more than venues for product and company bashing. As innovators, opinion leaders and heavy users tend to gather together in net communities; marketers can expect...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Urban Planner Job Description
- The Urban Planner job description template includes the following job summary: To develop comprehensive plans and programs, both short- and long-term for the development, growth, and revitalization of the urban and suburban environment to maximize quality of life for the community and its residents. Additional information available includes essential job...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Settlement Patterns in the U.S. and Canada: Similarities and Differences - Policies or Preferences?
- Smart Growth advocates in the U.S. and elsewhere worry about urban sprawl and typically advocate new controls on urban growth, including tougher land use planning and regulation. Comparing recent U.S. and Canadian settlement and travel trends suggests a test. Cultural differences are minor but urban policy differences are significant. The...
- White papers 2003-10-03
- Strategic Plan
- This article discusses strategic plan of the Louisiana urban forestry council. Louisiana is known all over the world for its lush greenery. Louisiana trees are among the most beautiful in the world. However, Louisiana’s urban forests face many challenges. For instance, there is an unfortunate lack of knowledge as to...
- Case studies 2002-03-15
- A Report on the Feasibility of Deconstruction: An Investigation of Deconstruction Activity in Four Cities
- This report provides a brief, but cogent, analysis of the feasibility of deconstruction. This report is based on a study of four urban communities and lessons from other local deconstruction initiatives. It describes the conditions under which the deconstruction is likely to work, and the barriers - economic, organizational, and...
- White papers 2001-01-01
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