The Citistates Group’s report on the Charlotte Metro Region began publication September 21 with a pitch for a fast-growing national finance center and New South city to grasp 21st challenges and go for a “Great, Green and Global” development agenda that matches the challenges of the times.
The series is co-written by Curtis Johnson, our Citistates Associate Alex Marshall, and myself, with Farley Peters providing project coordination. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Urban Institute sponsored the new report, with a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It’s the first reprise, in 25 Citistates projects, of a full regional analysis from earlier years. The original Charlotte release — then called a Peirce Report — was published not only in the Charlotte Observer and several other interested newspapers across the region in 1995. The Observer is again joined by several area papers in publishing the 2008 report, which is appearing in four installments between September and December.
Here are links to the lead stories in the first month’s release, including a retrospective to 1995 and outlines of a new energy scenario for the area:
Series setup
Energy story
“Green, Great and Global”
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