[[soundcloud 196402965]] Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe Are neighbors vanishing in America? Marc Dunkelman thinks so. Marc is a fellow in public policy with the Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University and author of “The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community.” Here are five things you should know from […]
Article · March 18, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 195328628]] Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe Jim Lasko had a failure to ignite—literally—in front of thousands of people. As a Loeb Fellow and executive artistic director of Chicago-based Redmoon Theater, Jim conceived a major public festival to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire. Unfortunately, when the time came, there was no great fire – […]
Article · March 11, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 194226392]] An estimated one third of adults can be called “soloists,” people who work in non-traditional relationships with their employers. And the rate is growing rapidly, 15 to 17 percent every year. Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe A soloist is, as George Gendron puts it, an extreme version of an entrepreneur and requires […]
Article · March 4, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 192465016]] Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe Paul Grogan is one of the nation’s great civic innovators. Paul has had a 360-degree view of what makes cities tick—from his early service as aide to two Boston mayors, to the creation of the nation’s first national intermediary for community development, to the founding of CEOs […]
Article · February 25, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 191774621]] Each week, it seems someone publishes yet another list of essentials for city success. In fact, at Knight, we have our own list of these essentials: talent, opportunity and engagement. But Charles Leadbeater, a leading authority on innovation and creativity, believes empathy should be right at the top of these lists. Sign up for […]
Article · February 18, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 190428045]] Do you ever look at an abandoned building in your city and think, why doesn’t someone fix that up? Do you ever imagine that you might be the one to bring it back to life? Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe Avra Jain is a Miami-based real estate investor and developer. Her latest […]
Article · February 11, 2015 by Carol Coletta
Every week on our “Knight Cities” podcast, civic innovators join me to discuss ways we can create successful cities. Last week I spoke with Dennis Scholl, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. Here are five things you should know from my conversation with Dennis: The arts can bind a community and bring it together. […]
Article · February 10, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 189455708]] Making art general in cities across America is the charge of Dennis Scholl, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. Dennis and his colleagues are the brains behind the Knight Arts Challenge (which is currently open for ideas in South Florida), the enormously popular Random Acts of Culture, and Inside|Out, the project that […]
Article · February 4, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 188197263]] How do you create a sense of community in a brand new development? It’s a question Sandra Kulli, a real estate marketing strategist, has been wrestling with for years. She is president of Kulli Marketing, and we had a chance to catch up recently in Todos Santos, Mexico, the site of one of her […]
Article · January 28, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 187168948]] Can business muster the will, the know-how and the capital to take on the problems cities face? Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe Shaun Abrahamson is betting on it. He is co-founder of Urban.us, a new public benefit corporation based in Miami – and a Knight Foundation grantee – that supports companies working […]
Article · January 21, 2015 by Carol Coletta
[[soundcloud 186012964]] What’s your Walk Score? That’s a question that has become increasingly popular among urbanists since the founding of Walk Score seven years ago. Now real estate agents prominently display the number on their listings, knowing the value it adds to properties. Sign up for Podcast Alerts Subscribe Matt Lerner is a co-founder of […]
Article · January 14, 2015 by Carol Coletta