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Neal Peirce on Green Philadelphia, Edward T. McMahon on Density Development
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<p style="color: #121212; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; margin: 0; padding: 20px; line-height: 16px;"><em>"<strong>Welcome to Citiwire.net!</strong> 'A great green sponge' -- in a column six years ago, that's how I described the ambition of the city's watersheds director -- Howard Neukrug -- to substitute natural drainage for the massive, multi-billion dollar pipe systems that cities normally build to handle their storm runoff (all too often mixed with raw sewage). Now Neukrug has not only been made the city's Water Commissioner but carried his plan to the point of formal approval by state and federal environmental regulators. And in this column, I relate they growing array of benefits Neukrug can name, including social -- creating greenery for equity, and making the city more desirable so that it also draws more tax-paying citizens. Economics broadening the definition of 'green sponge'! … No new companion Citiwire piece this week, so I'm rerunning Ed McMahon's article from last week -- Even if you read it originally, check back for the interesting array of comments it generated."
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, May 20, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>WASHINGTON -- Could it be serious -- a major American city makes water conservation the linchpin of its 21st-century planning, the ticket to a future that's both "green" and economically vibrant? </p>
<p>Answer: yes. And that grand old city is Philadelphia. Two centuries past the time it led America in population and power, a quarter-century past a wave of crippling industrial losses, Philadelphia is consciously making water conservation a centerpiece of its economic and environmental strategy -- its goal to be the country's "greenest" city. </p>
<p>Elements of the plan, first conceived in the city's Office of Watersheds, sound radically less ambitious. The focus is on stopping storm water from flooding drainage systems and sending untreated sewage and debris flowing into local rivers and streams. (Yearly, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates, more than 10 trillion gallons of untreated urban runoff flow into the nation's surface waters.) </p>
<p>To stem its discharges, Philadelphia is intent on filtering out, block by block, the fast, storm-induced runoff of pollutants -- litter, oil, antifreeze, pesticides, bacteria from pet waste -- that accumulate on concrete and asphalt surfaces, then wash into and pollute streams and rivers. </p>
<p>All this matters in dollars. Federal Clean Water Act rules could have obligated Philadelphia to spend as much as $10 billion for a system of massive tanks and tunnels to hold overflows -- the "big engineering" solution many cities are following. By contrast, the cost of Philadelphia's new water-conserving, storm-mitigating green infrastructure may be as little as $2 billion. </p>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Friday, May 11, 2012<br />
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<p>When it comes to land development, Americans famously dislike two things: too much sprawl and too much density. Over the past 50 years, the pendulum swung sharply in the direction of spread-out, single use, drive everywhere for everything, low density development.</p>
<p>Now the pendulum is swinging back. High energy prices, smart growth, transit oriented development, new urbanism, infill development, sustainability concerns: are all coalescing to foster more compact, walkable, mixed use and higher density development.</p>
<p>The pendulum swing is both necessary and long overdue. Additionally, there is a growing demand for higher density housing because of demographic and lifestyle preference changes among boomers and young adults. The problem is that many developers and urban planners have decided that density requires high rises: the taller, the better. To oppose a high-rise building is to run the risk of being labeled a NIMBY, a dumb growth advocate, a Luddite -- or worse.</p>
<p>Buildings 20, 40, 60 even 100 stories tall are being proposed and built in low and mid-rise neighborhoods all over the world. All of these projects are justified with the explanation that if density is good, even more density is better. Washington, D.C. is just the latest low- or mid-rise city to face demands for taller buildings.</p>
<p>Yet Washington is one of the world's most singularly beautiful cities for several big reasons: first, the abundance of parks and open spaces, second, the relative lack of outdoor advertising (which has over commercialized so many other cities), and third a limit on the height of new buildings.</p>
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Neal Peirce on Urban Inversion, Edward T. McMahon on Density Development
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<p style="color: #121212; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; margin: 0; padding: 20px; line-height: 16px;"><em>"<strong>Welcome to Citiwire.net!</strong> Is there really a 'grand' inversion -- city and suburb -- occurring in America? Answer: In many ways, yes. In other ways, a very mixed bag. Based on Alan Ehrenahlt's new book, my column takes on that theme. … And from Ed McMahon, Citistates Associate and a fellow at the Urban Land Institute, we get a critical analysis whether it's the once-verboten word 'density' we now need to embrace, or actually a less intense, still very urban form of urban development that history has proven most viable."
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<h2 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://citiwire.net/columns/urban-u-s-a-remade-a-grand-inversion/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dispatch" title="Permalink to Urban U.S.A. Remade: A ‘Grand Inversion’?" rel="bookmark" style="color: #fff; text-decoration: none;">Urban U.S.A. Remade: A ‘Grand Inversion’?</a></h2>
<p style="color: #eee; font-size: 12px; margin: 0; padding: 0;">By Neal Peirce</p> </td>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, May 13, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>How fast are our downtowns, neighborhoods and regions truly changing? Are cities on a clear comeback path? What's the future of suburbia?</p>
<p>Opinions abound. Some analysts predict spirited and expanding revival of once-neglected center cities, even while far-out, "drive 'til you qualify" suburbia virtually withers on the vine. Others contend that suburbia and America have become synonymous, that our love of space will in time refuel sprawling housing tracts expanding to farthest suburban frontier, no matter if gasoline prices soar.</p>
<p>If you'd like a clear-eyed view, check Alan Ehrenhalt's new book, "The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City" (Alfred Knopf). Ehrenhalt leans to the side of cities on the rebound. He makes a strong case for how today's young adults, in sharp contrast to the choices their parents made, are opting for lively, walkable urban streets with parks, shops, transit and school choices. </p>
<p>But it's not just urban hype. Equally important, Ehrenhalt notes: Large numbers of African-Americans are moving out of cities, into once typically white suburbs. And high proportions of recent immigrants aren't repeating the historic choice of inner cities, but selecting suburbia instead.</p>
<p>Atlanta offers a prime example. The center city is on the brink of losing its black majority as whites move in and blacks move out. Two huge Atlanta suburban counties, Clayton and DeKalb, now have black majorities. In the meantime, a mélange of Hispanics, followed by foreign-born from India, Vietnam, South Korea and Eastern Europe, have flooded into once overwhelmingly white Gwinnett County on the region's outskirts. Anglos are now a minority in Gwinnett, once prototype of the white-fight-escape-and-settlement American suburb.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Friday, May 11, 2012<br />
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<p>When it comes to land development, Americans famously dislike two things: too much sprawl and too much density. Over the past 50 years, the pendulum swung sharply in the direction of spread-out, single use, drive everywhere for everything, low density development.</p>
<p>Now the pendulum is swinging back. High energy prices, smart growth, transit oriented development, new urbanism, infill development, sustainability concerns: are all coalescing to foster more compact, walkable, mixed use and higher density development.</p>
<p>The pendulum swing is both necessary and long overdue. Additionally, there is a growing demand for higher density housing because of demographic and lifestyle preference changes among boomers and young adults. The problem is that many developers and urban planners have decided that density requires high rises: the taller, the better. To oppose a high-rise building is to run the risk of being labeled a NIMBY, a dumb growth advocate, a Luddite -- or worse.</p>
<p>Buildings 20, 40, 60 even 100 stories tall are being proposed and built in low and mid-rise neighborhoods all over the world. All of these projects are justified with the explanation that if density is good, even more density is better. Washington, D.C. is just the latest low- or mid-rise city to face demands for taller buildings.</p>
<p>Yet Washington is one of the world's most singularly beautiful cities for several big reasons: first, the abundance of parks and open spaces, second, the relative lack of outdoor advertising (which has over commercialized so many other cities), and third a limit on the height of new buildings.</p>
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Neal Peirce on Crowdsourcing and Cities, Doug Henton on the California Economic Summit
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2012-05-03T10:46:15Z
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  -- Neal Peirce</em></p></td>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, May 6, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>Defining "crowdsourcing" consumes close to 4,000 words on the Wikipedia website -- fitting enough for an electronic encyclopedia that's being updated 24/7 by some 50,000 registered users scattered across the globe.</p>
<p>But how about the communities where we live? How broadly are we already using the "big open tent" of crowdsourcing, its reach now magically enlarged by the worldwide web, to apply the wisdom of "people like us" to create better towns and cities?</p>
<p>The short answer: "it's spreading rapidly." And it's going far beyond the familiar concept of "public engagement" in which mayors or county officials define an issue or problem and then ask for citizen input on how to handle it.</p>
<p>The big problem with the historic model, notes civic analyst Storm Cunningham, CEO of ReCitizen in Washington, D.C., is that "it implies that whoever is doing the engagement owns the process, and those being engaged don't." In too many cases, he adds, it becomes "an autocratic, top-down, paternalistic approach with stakeholder engagement window dressing."</p>
<p>But just holding public meetings isn't a great solution either. As Cunningham rightly observes, such assemblies often "attract a few loud, selfish, narrow-minded citizens who co-opt the dialogue to promote their own agendas, or just shoot down the ideas of others."</p>
<p>So how can crowdsourcing avoid all this? It's by hundreds, sometimes thousands of citizens going online, suggesting ideas to tackle problems, then commenting on each other's ideas. Result: negativism, garrulous ranting gets sidelined. The best ideas rise to the top as the participants vote on each others' proposals. The "crowd" then becomes personally engaged in actual design and strategy to make the idea work. In the most successful crowdsourcing efforts, Cunningham insists, the ideas gain such support and momentum that city halls have no choice other than to become supporters and implementers.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Thursday, May 3, 2012<br />
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<p>As Mark Twain once said "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." With unemployment soaring to over 12 percent and a loss of over 1 million jobs during the Great Recession contributing to a 20 billion dollar state budget deficit, many commentators have remarked that California's better days are over. From the perspective of Sacramento and Washington, it would be fair to say that California has its share of fiscal problems and governance challenges to overcome. </p>
<p>However, from the perspective of California's diverse regions, I am happy to report like Mark Twain that, "the reports of California's demise are greatly exaggerated." Regional stewards from across the states are not waiting for solutions to come from either Washington or Sacramento. Leaders from business, local government, education, labor and environmental groups are joining together for the first Annual California Economic Summit to create a jobs and competitiveness agenda to address our long term challenges.</p>
<p>The California Stewardship Network sponsored by the Morgan Family Foundation has been creating momentum for the regional movement in California for several years. As is the case across America, California "regions are on the rise" for the same of the reasons outlined in the recent Citistates report: <em>American Regions Take Center Stage</em>. Our regional economies are our source of competitive advantage. They are committed to economic vitality, equality of opportunity and environmental quality. They get the idea that collaboration is essential. They are developing effective regional strategies and learning how to partner with the state on several critical workforce, transportation, land use and environmental issues.</p>
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Neal Peirce on Center Stage Metro Regions, Bill Dodge on Why Nations Fail
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2012-04-29T11:52:28Z
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  -- Neal Peirce</em></p></td>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, April 29, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>"America's Metro Regions Take Center Stage."</p>
<p>That's the title of a new report I've been working on with colleagues. And we know that some people will immediately retort:</p>
<p>"Metros? You can't be serious. How about Obama, Romney, congressional stalemate, the Tea Party, states in budget crisis -- and all the other news flavors of the moment?"</p>
<p>And our reply: Flying almost undetected under the news radar, America's metropolitan regions are becoming central to today's American story -- and future.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Our Citistates Group, enhanced by regional experts, convened at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Pocantico estate along the Hudson River last October and agreed on eight top reasons.</p>
<p>First, economics now reign. Leaders in the regional pack -- New York, Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, the San Francisco Bay Area and others -- recognized early that the entire globe's their market. They moved ahead of the pack on trade; they attracted entrepreneurial immigrants; they focused on quality universities and attracting knowledge-based populations. As America's consumer economy sputters, smart export-oriented regions are now poised to prosper for the long run.</p>
<p>Second, there's "smart growth -- regions' new dollars and sense." The sprawl development patterns of recent decades now look like disasters, both for developers and buyers. Environmental conservation, compact growth, have become top goals for smart regions.</p>
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<p>Ask why nations succeed or fail and a group of likely suspects are offered. Natural resources are too scarce, human capital isn't developed, the geography is unfavorable (there's a long list of possible explanations). But there's another perhaps more critical factor, highlighted by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson in their provocative new book: Why Nations Fail (Crown Business, 2012). Nations fail, they argue, because of extractive economic and political institutions that cement the power of narrow elites -- as opposed to "inclusive" systems that centralize power to assure some degree of law, but share their power in a wise, pluralistic manner, offering opportunities for new entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>Could it be that regions within nations or states succeed or fail for the same reason?</p>
<p>The book cites numerous cases from the earliest city states to contemporary nation states to suggest regions thrive or falter for similar reasons. For example, they compare the sister cities of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, citing the extraordinary gaps in income, education, infrastructure, and quality of life across two sides of a common boundary -- with the clear advantage on the United States of America side. </p>
<p>The difference lies in history and custom, it's suggested. The United States is seen as a nation that expanded opportunities from its founding onwards, from the first landholders, then to slaves, then to women. The process wasn't perfect: Native Americans were persecuted early on and a brutal war had to be fought to free the slaves. And to this day there are hard issues of disparities of wealth between rich and poor, corporate dominance of election financing, and push back against new immigrants…</p>
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Neal Peirce on Progressive Taxation, Jon Greenberg on Gross National Happiness
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<p style="color: #eee; font-size: 12px; margin: 0; padding: 0;">By Neal Peirce</p> </td>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, April 22, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>In terms of equity, it's hard to argue with President Obama's call to enact the "Buffett Rule" -- setting an alternative minimum income tax of 30 percent for $1-million-plus earners.</p>
<p>But it's also true: in Washington's multi-trillion dollar budget debates, imposing the rule proposed by financier Warren Buffett would yield just $5 billion a year.</p>
<p>The far greater problem is to combat the argument that reasonable levels of taxes on the affluent somehow quash job-producing investment. It's not just so. As Bill Gates Sr. argues in his foreword to a new book, The Self-Made Myth, by Brian Miller and Mike Lapham (Barrett-Koehler Publishers).</p>
<p>"A quick glance at the past 80 years shows that we have had periods of tremendous economic growth when the top marginal rates were high, putting a lie to the notion that raising taxes in upper income taxpayers will stunt growth."</p>
<p>Then there's the companion myth: that it hardly matters whether government services, ranging from education to infrastructure to public safety, are crippled by budget cuts.</p>
<p>What's alarming today is that the anti-government agenda isn't just being pushed in Washington, where it threatens to fulfill the wildest dreams of Grover Norquist's "never raise taxes" campaign. There's a concerted nationwide effort to sell the same perverse philosophy to state governments. And it's based on the same supply-side economic theory -- once termed "voodoo economics" by President George H.W. Bush -- that reduced taxes automatically spur economic productivity.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Thursday, April 19, 2012<br />
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<p>When the international community gathers to focus on sustainable development this June in Rio de Janeiro, it will take up many daunting challenges. How to create jobs without ruining the world. How to feed 7 billion people without stripping the land and polluting the water. How to find a sustainable balance between the demand and supply of energy. And yes, how to build cities that provide for every inhabitant without massively leaching resources from everywhere else.</p>
<p>At its heart, the quest for sustainable development is a more nuanced quest for growth and woven into the conversations in Rio will be a small but fundamental question: Should we change our yardstick for economic success? For sixty years, the popular shorthand for how any country is doing, the measure that pops up in the news and shapes national policy, has been what we today call GDP, Gross Domestic Product. When GDP rises, life is good. When it falls, life is bad.</p>
<p>The original designers of GDP knew such an interpretation was a gross oversimplification. Today there is a growing chorus that aims to replace, or at least pair it, with an index that is equally rigorous and more comprehensive. That new yardstick of success goes by the unlikely name of Gross National Happiness (GNH).</p>
<p>GNH is a term easily dismissed. While the "pursuit of happiness" might be enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence, in policy circles, the word itself has all the heft of a yellow smiley face. The origins of GNH are equally modest. The idea emerged in 1972 in the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, a primarily Buddhist country squeezed between India and China on the edge of the Himalayas. </p>
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Neal Peirce on City-Based IT and Curtis Johnson on a Detroit Surprise
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2012-04-15T13:45:34Z
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<p style="color: #eee; font-size: 12px; margin: 0; padding: 0;">By Neal Peirce</p> </td>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, April 15, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>In our age of acronyms, you'll be excused if you can't define SFPark, SFStartup, SmartSF, EngageSF. They're all part of SFGov -- or to be more precise, San Francisco city government's leap into a world of far-ranging innovations.</p>
<p>Jay Nath, appointed in January by Mayor Edwin Lee to serve as San Francisco's Chief Innovation Officer, is at the cutting edge of a new brand of urban governance: looking to citizen and business innovators to work with City Hall in devising ways for local government to function -- and interact -- in more efficient, economical, user-friendly ways.</p>
<p>Largely (but not exclusively) the new approach is driven by cutting-edge technology -- "apps" on citizens' computers and mobile phones, fiber optic connections, ubiquitous sensors spread around town, and ever-speedier computing. But it's also competitive economics: ways for city government, competing for businesses and tax-paying citizens, to make itself an ever-more desirable place to be.</p>
<p>So consider SFPark. It's an app that provides a real time inventory of available parking spots for residents and tourists. The goal is to reduce circling and double parking. Result: less congestion, cleaner air, safer streets, and a clearer path for public transit. Drivers are encouraged to park in underused areas and garages. Prices on the installed street meters (currently 25 cents to $4.75 an hour) are regularly adjusted to keep one or two spaces available on any block. </p>
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<p>"America's Surprise Comeback City" read the headline tucked into a tight corner of a magazine cover. I was connecting at the Los Angeles airport after a long flight, ready to board a red-eye flight back to the Midwest, and thought I'd do a quick browse of the newsstand. It was the current edition of the <em>National Geographic Traveler</em> that caught my eye.</p>
<p>It had a Cuba story emblazoned on its cover. That was enough to make me reach for my wallet, thinking back to the people and places I visited in Havana a decade ago. But when I picked up the magazine, curious about the comeback story, I was -- well, the tag line was "surprise comeback" -- at least mildly amazed that a mainstream travel magazine would be among the first to pick up the changing narrative about Detroit. </p>
<p>What's not surprising is discovering this article came from someone with Detroit roots, Andrew Nelson. Nelson grew up in Detroit and remembers how, in the mid-1960s, the city was fifth on the charts of the largest American cities and at the "top of its game."</p>
<p>Nelson's lived in New Orleans for the past three years, and finds it easy to point out that both cities have French beginnings. Most people from elsewhere don't know that Detroit's founder, going back all the way to 1701, is -- get ready for longer names than we see today -- Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac. </p>
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Neal Peirce on Regional Education Goals and Robert Lang on America's Megapolitans
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, April 8, 2012<br />
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<p>What can American communities really do to increase school achievement scores, to improve college graduation rates, and increase their prospects for a competitive niche in the 21st century global economy?</p>
<p>Educational theories and approaches abound. From teachers to administrators to foundations and corporate leaders, everyone claims to have a "right" approach. Choices range from early childhood to wellness programs, more computerized learning to certified teachers in all classrooms.</p>
<p>But one thing is too often missing -- teamwork -- the process of bringing all the skills of a city and region to bear on promoting what clear evidence shows truly succeeds, by objective measurements, to produce better academic results.</p>
<p>The good news is that the United States still has its inspired crusaders for change. One most certainly is Nancy L. Zimpher, former president of the University of Cincinnati, where in 2006 she co-founded "Strive" -- America's first network to push for in-depth regional education alliances, championing an exciting if highly challenging cause: "Every Child, Every Step of the Way, from Cradle to Career."</p>
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<p>In a space as large as France, the Netherlands and Belguim combined, America's megapolitans house more than 2.5 times as many people. In fact, they are more densely settled than Europe as a whole and, by some estimates, will house two-thirds of the U.S. population by 2040.</p>
<p>Yet, the United States is often referred to as the land of wide-open spaces with low population density. And, at times, the nostalgia for how America once was is used to influence and validate public policy. For instance, some policy experts firmly believe that the U.S. cannot support European-style passenger rail.</p>
<p>It is true the average population density in the U.S.—about 100 persons per square mile—is roughly half that of Western European countries. But the comparison is misguided. The U.S. has a significant amount of densely settled urban areas scattered throughout. While megapolitans occupy only 17 percent of the continuous 48 states' land base, America's megapolitan clusters, as a group, form the world's third most populous country, behind China and India.</p>
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Neal Peirce on Trayvon and MarySue Barrett on Creative Partnerships
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, April 1, 2012<br />
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<p>As deeply tragic as it is in its own right, the Florida shooting of 17-year old Trayvon Martin exposes far-ranging -- and connected -- fissures in American political life.</p>
<p>First: News reports have indicated the shooter, while claiming self-defnese, is showing some remorse. Great -- but better not to have laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" statute at all. Guns supposedly empower; in truth they easily turn altercations into killings.</p>
<p>Second: Who pushed the law's passage? Answer: the National Rifle Association. It drafted the bill, pushed it through the Florida legislature in 2005, and then stood by approvingly as then-Gov. Jeb Bush signed it. </p>
<p>An early supporter: State Sen. Marco Rubio, now a U.S. Senator and mentioned as a potential vice presidential nominee. Rubio is reluctant to change the law without more evidence. But he'll unquestionably be challenged on it. Even some early supporters are doubtful. Kendall Coffee, former U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida, has condemned the statute as "a license to kill." A 2010 survey by the Tampa Bay Times found that Florida's rates of "justifiable homicide" had tripled since the law's passage.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Saturday, March 31, 2012<br />
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<p>"Lost decade." When a politician utters a phrase so bleak about his or her own region, it's a calculated risk: During the sharp intake of breath that inevitably follows, one wonders: Will the communities, residents and businesses he or she represents respond with innovative ideas and strong commitments to work together to avoid repeating past mistakes?</p>
<p>Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took that chance in March with the release of World Business Chicago's Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs, which soberly diagnoses the impact of what the mayor called the prior "lost decade." The plan identifies 10 strategies for making the next decade a prosperous one, many requiring joint public and private sector action. Examples: enhancing the Chicago area's competitive position as a leading transportation and logistics hub, making the region a premier tourist destination, and developing and deploying neighborhood assets to align with regional economic growth.</p>
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Neal Peirce on Metro Ethics and State Anti-Corruption Efforts
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<p>While hyper-partisanship and ugly derogation of opponents infect Congress and national politics, we needn't despair. In fact, "The United States is really awash in quality leadership."</p>
<p>That's the case made by Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution vice president and founder director of its Metropolitan Policy Program. </p>
<p>"Everywhere you turn, at the city, at the metropolitan or state scale," he contends, "you find either individual leaders, or more likely networks of leaders, who tend to put place over party and ideology." </p>
<p>It's true -- facing real local problems, partisanship fades. As New York Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia famously remarked, "there is no Democrat or Republican way to pick up garbage."</p>
<p>But it's more than service delivery, Katz insisted in a recent interview. He sees local, metro, and many state leaders teaming up to address three core challenges in the globally competitive 21st century -- shaping a stronger, entrepreneurial economy, creating urban quality that draws talented workers, and building citizens' basic skills.</p>
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<p>For imprisoned governors, Illinois excels: last Thursday Rod Blagojevich, following in the footsteps of his predecessors George Ryan, Dan Walker and Otto Kerner, began his penitentiary time on serious corruption charges.</p>
<p>But now there's more heartening news. A State Integrity Investigation, 18 months in the making, was released this Monday, covering all 50 states -- easily the most thorough look at ethics laws and susceptibility to corruption ever focused on America's state governments.</p>
<p>Teams of freelance journalists -- at least one in each state -- did the on-the-ground reporting. They didn't just look for some glaring abuse. Rather, over months of investigation, they checked each state's anti-corruption and transparency safeguards on 330 "corruption risk indicators," ranging from accountability of governors, legislators and judges to lobbying disclosure. </p>
<p>What they found were open records laws riddled with exceptions. Scores of legislators -- suddenly becoming lobbyists, lawmakers voting on measures that benefit from directly, and near-toothless disclosure laws. </p>
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Neal Peirce on Freeway Teardowns, David Boyd on Problem-Solving COWS
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<p>PHILADELPHIA -- Will the 20th century's urban freeway legacy -- interstate roads cutting huge swaths through American cities -- be reversed in the 21st?</p>
<p>Increasingly bold urbanists are looking to reclaim lost city land by demolishing segments of the interstates and other massive limited access super-roads.</p>
<p>One reason's obvious: to restore livability to downtowns and neighborhoods that were deeply scarred by massive highways plunging through them. But there's another key motive: belief that demolitions will trigger dramatic flows of new private investment and increased real estate value as the scourged city acres are redeveloped.</p>
<p>The Congress for the New Urbanism has a list of 10 top U.S. cities for possible freeway teardowns, scattered from Buffalo to New Orleans to Louisville. But new proposals keep springing up. A latest example: to demolish (or bury below ground) Philadelphia's elephant on its Delaware River waterfront -- the three-mile, ten-lane stretch of Interstate 95 that's stunted development for decades. A citizen activist friend of mine, Stanhope Browne, led a successful fight in the 1960s to depress at least the critical six-block Penn's Landing area to a below-grade level. But several blocks remain an uncovered barrier.</p>
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<p>MADISON -- There are COWS in the Sewell Social Science building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin here. That probably doesn't come as a surprise, given Wisconsin's reputation as "America's Dairyland." But it's not the kind of cows you would expect. COWS is an acronym for the "Center On Wisconsin Strategy." For the past 20 years it has been an epicenter for promoting and disseminating "high road" solutions to a wide array of social, economic, and environmental problems.</p>
<p>The idea behind "high road" solutions is based on a set of values -- a focus on equity, sustainability, and democracy. And closely allied, implementation strategies to improve the efficiency and productivity of government. It is about creating "an appropriate infrastructure for a progressive economy," says Joel Rogers, COWS Director. "People have lost faith in government and our democratic institutions. Part of what COWS does is focus on inventories and benchmarks and then help to find ways to reduce waste, add value, and then capture and share the benefits for all. We are a think-and-do tank."</p>
<p>COWS has a variety of programs that address topics such as improving job quality, promoting innovation in clean and efficient energy, and providing progressive policy options to state governments and their DOTs. One program that is getting increasing attention and having a growing impact is the Mayors Innovation Project (MIP).</p>
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Neal Peirce on High-Speed Internet, Anthony Flint on TED's 2.0 Talk
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Sunday, March 4, 2012<br />
(c) 2012 Washington Post Writers Group</span></p>
<p>What does it really mean for a city when it wins the high speed Internet sweepstakes?</p>
<p>Last year Kansas City, Kansas, got the electrifying news: it had beaten out 1,100 others to be selected as the site for Internet giant Google's first ultra-high speed fiber network.</p>
<p>Later Google expanded the award to include even bigger Kansas City, Mo., directly across the Missouri River. So the entire region's been bubbling with excitement. But also scratching its head, wondering what comes next, what's the real-time gain when there's assurance of a gigabyte per second Internet speeds, 100 times faster than America's national average.</p>
<p>Nothing's been constructed or connected yet, but hopes are still high. Kansas City (Mo.) Mayor Sylvester ("Sly") James, an articulate lawyer elected in 2011, starred at a recent international Cities Summit in Vancouver as he outlined the rich opportunities the Google selection has opened up. "It has put us on the map," James contends, by dramatically advancing the region's image as a hot spot for more creative industries, knowledge workers and high-fiber-enabled new business models.</p>
<p>And there is local ferment. The Kauffman Foundation sees dramatic opportunities for its central focus -- entrepreneurship. The University of Kansas Medical Center has asked its affiliates for ideas including virtual in-home- or in-clinic medical services.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #191919; font: 12px 'Century Gothic', 'Verdana', 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;">For Release Saturday, March 3, 2012<br />
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<p>LONG BEACH -- The history of cities over the last century is littered with good intentions, from separated-use zoning to urban renewal to more recent interventions such as convention centers, riverwalks, pedestrian malls, and monorails.</p>
<p>Today, while Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle continue to enjoy a resurgence, the rescue of legacy cities such as Youngstown and Camden remains elusive, and megacities in the developing world are best by poverty and troubled slums.</p>
<p>So what makes a glamorous institution like TED think it has anything to offer? The highly ambitious initiative The City 2.0, announced Wednesday at the annual gathering here, suggests a new pathway for gathering ideas and experimentation for the 21st century city, that seeks to be given a chance. </p>
<p>The City 2.0 is a "wish" embodied in the TED Prize for 2012, which has for the last several years been awarded to individuals. Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson prompted the creation of the Encylopedia of Life [http://eol.org/]. Last year's winner, the French artist JR, sought to bring art in the city to a new level with portraits of people plastered on walls and buildings in cities throughout across the globe.</p>
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