We’ve seen a lot of fascinating takes on the Strong Towns approach, but this none quite like this musical take.
Read MoreConventional economic development practice focuses on recruiting new businesses to relocate to the community. In reality, the most stable and prosperous businesses are those that are homegrown.
Read MoreIf your city isn’t pursuing this strategy to economic development, you’re missing out.
Read MoreGreg Wright—Executive Director at CREATE Portage County—shares how you can foster creative (and financially resilient) communities where you live, including how to inspire creative residents, how to demonstrate the economic impact of creativity, and why you should root all initiatives in a “small and smart” way.
We conclude our podcast greatest-hits series by revisiting a 2013 conversation with Chris Gibbons, the originator of Economic Gardening. Helping home-grown companies expand—rather than importing jobs from elsewhere—Economic Gardening is the essence of a Strong Towns approach to economic development.
Read MoreTulsa, OK is the latest city to offer remote workers some tempting incentives if they’ll move there for only a year. Is this a smarter approach to economic development, or do our cities need to #dothemath?
Read MoreAkron, Ohio’s subsidies for redevelopment of the failed Rolling Acres mall are a textbook case of the sunk cost fallacy: the tendency to examine new opportunities not on their own merit, but in the context of past investments.
Read MoreThe Edward Lowe Foundation is offering a free webcast, "A Beginner's Guide to Economic Gardening," next month, led by Chris Gibbons, founder of Economic Gardening
Read MoreThis proposal is political theater at best, and, at worst, it's treating jobs as an object of religious veneration.
Read MoreCities are filled with talent, ideas, and hardworking people. We just need to provide them with the platform to be productive.
Read MoreHere are 4 different types of stress that can help our cities become strong towns.
Read MoreMany people associate Jacobs with a love of walkable neighborhoods, urban parks and historic buildings. What they fail to grasp is that these are means to an end, not the end itself.
Read MoreA strong town needs strong local businesses.
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