Perspectives of a Lifelong Learner
A TEN-POINT ACTION PLAN FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS (OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS) By Richard Florida and Steven Pedigo "Even as cities focus on a full-out mobilization of required health and medical resources to cope with the first phase of this pandemic, it is important that economic developers mobilize all available resources to get their communities ready... Continue Reading →
For eight years I was fortunate to have been offered the opportunity to redesign and then teach this second generation course, The Global City. (Master of Public Policy and Administration Program, MPPA, at Northwestern University). Due to my retirement and subsequent curriculum change, the course is no longer being offered but it clearly provided insights... Continue Reading →
"This is localism, a bottom-up, practically oriented way of looking at today’s biggest policy dilemmas. Instead of always or only seeking to fix municipal issues through national policy, localism suggests that communities can and should find solutions to their own particular problems, within their own particular contexts." Gracy Olmstead https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/opinion/localism-partisanship-local-politics.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share ... Continue Reading →
As a newly appointed member of the Editorial Board, I am pleased to share with my academic and practitioner friends and colleagues, the link to the State and Local Government Review. It serves as the official journal of the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) of the American Society for Public Administration. Veteran members... Continue Reading →
For those of you in and around the greater Chicago area, this and the entire series of programs, on the campus of the University of Illinois, Chicago, will be well worth your time. There will come a day when this country fully embraces an honest and open conversation about race, gender, and sexual orientation. Until... Continue Reading →
Cities in California will hopefully start to understand that economic development is more than marketing and the pursuit of retail sales. It is hard to unlearn almost 40 years of history. //www.c-span.org/video/?426816-2/new-urban-crisis
Jessica A. Lee is a former Brookings associate fellow and an associate director at Intentional Futures, a strategy and design consultancy in Seattle https://www.brookings.edu/research/beyond-millennials-valuing-older-adults-participation-in-innovation-districts/
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