Longmont Economic Gardening Initiative
This case study explores Longmont, CO’s economic gardening efforts. This is the first of a two-part series exploring innovative local government programs to support entrepreneurs.
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The Rise of the New Baltimoreans
This case study explores Baltimore’s efforts to welcome immigrants to grow the city’s population, and in the process, it’s economy. This is the final case study of a three-part series exploring how cities are developing innovative models for tackling complex urban issues and strengthening their local economies in partnership with Next American City.
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Gig City, U.S.A.: Bringing Google Fiber to Kansas City
This case study explores Google’s initiative to bring ultra-fast internet connection speeds to the Kansas City area. It is part two of a three-part series in partnership with Next American City exploring how cities are developing models for tackling complex urban issues and strengthening their economies.
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Asheville’s Efforts to Support and Attract Entrepreneurs
This case study explores Asville NC's efforts to support entrepreneurs. This is the second of a two-part series exploring innovative local government programs to support entrepreneurs.
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Leading City Issues of 2012: Snapshot from CitiesSpeak.org
Jobs and the economy, sustainability, government performance, youth violence prevention, community design, and, wouldn’t you know it, beer, emerged as leading city themes of 2012. We surveyed the most read posts of the year from NLC’s CitiesSpeak.org blog to get a snapshot of the top local issues on the minds of readers.
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Emerging Innovations from the Front Lines of Urban Development
“Emerging Innovations from the Front Lines of Urban Development”, explores how cities are developing innovative models for tackling complex urban issues and strengthening their local economies. This series is produced in partnership with Next American City.
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Foreclosure Fatigue Sets In as Housing Market Improves
This CitiesSpeak blog post examines how quickly the attention paid to mortgage borrowers suffering through foreclosures, short-sales and default notices is quickly abandoned as good news continues to arrive in the form of rising home prices and sales.
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About the Center for Research & Innovation
The Center for Research & Innovation strives to strengthen communities, transform and improve cities, and assist city leaders, by knowing and learning about cities; identifying and sharing promising city practices; fostering effective solutions and innovation; and challenging cities and city leaders to lead. The Center’s program areas provide an organizing framework—lenses—through which city leaders can evaluate activities, plan comprehensively for the future, set goals, and measure progress.
Spotlight
NLC Officially Welcomes the Sustainable Cities Institute
NLC's Sustainability Program is proud to officially announce and welcome the Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI) to the Center for Research and Innovation.
Developed in 2009 by The Home Depot Foundation, an NLC Capstone Corporate Partner, the Sustainable Cities Institute is a dynamic toolbox to help cities identify, plan for and implement holistic, long-term approaches to community-wide sustainability.
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Or go to: www.sustainablecitiesinstitute.org
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