Redeveloping Our Cities: ‘The New Localism’ Approach
Cities have long been seeking out companies to relocate to their business-friendly confines. By dangling tax breaks and other incentives, cities hope to boost...
For Millennial Couple, Home Is Where It’s Walkable
According to conventional wisdom, if your company wants to attract bright young workers of the millennial generation (those born in the 1980s or 1990s)...
Book Excerpt: Cities’ Local Advantage
The excerpt below is reprinted from “The New Localism,” by permission of the publisher, the Brookings Institution Press. ...
The I-Banker Who Traded Stocks for Crops
Few jobs are romanticized as much as that of the farmer, and it’s easy to see why. To the thousands of people who commute...
Summer Fun for the Young – And Young at Heart
You can feel it in your blood — well after the cox has yelled “ready up” and your eight-person crew has hoisted the rowing...
From Humble Start to King of the Start-Up
If you ever stop by the Tigerlabs incubator, you might see a redheaded businessman there working, sometimes in a Steve Jobsian black turtleneck, and...