Music Video Pays Tribute To #37
Here’s a video recommendation from our good friend, Ken Neill, publisher of Memphis Flyer and Memphis magazine. It’s a musical perspective about the health care debate.
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 14, 2009
Here’s a video recommendation from our good friend, Ken Neill, publisher of Memphis Flyer and Memphis magazine. It’s a musical perspective about the health care debate.
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 14, 2009
Planetizen has announced results of its crowdsourcing experiment to rank the most influential urban thinkers of all time. Congratulations to our colleague Carol Coletta for making the list at #49.Here’s what Planetizen...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 13, 2009
The listening tour on merging governments was based on a central premise: the business models for Memphis and Shelby County Governments are broken.There may be disagreements about seemingly everything related to merging city and...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here’s the winner The Congress for New Urbanism contest. This short film explores the connection between New Urbanism and environmental issues, all of which is especially pertinent to Memphis and our region. Click here for...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 9, 2009
Reform. It’s one of those words used so often by politicians that it’s almost lost all meaning. It’s right up there with world-class, state-of-the-art, public-private partnership, new paradigm, and summit. For once, reform is...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 7, 2009 | Transportation
It doesn’t take much reading of this blog to know that we are deeply concerned by the pursuit of highways at the expense of our urban core’s health, priorities influenced too much by the usual suspects and the tendency for the...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Fair EnoughWe’re willing to support the Delta Fair and Music Festival – it’s a few minutes drive from most of us – but only when its organizers either put up or shut up about how unsafe the midtown Mid-South Fair was. It’s...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
As that old Captain and Tenille song says “Love Will Keep Us Together” but Smart City is finding out how love can also be a primary economic driver for cities. My guest Larry Beasley is the founder of Beasley and...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 3, 2009
Shelby County Board Chairman David Pickler has scheduled four more meetings to spread his myths about single source funding of public education. His fear offensive is being seen by many people outside Memphis for what it is –...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Sep 3, 2009
Some folks are picking our their beach reading for the Labor Day weekend, so in case you’re where there’s wi-fi, here are some ideas.We continue to live vicariously through Revolutions Bike Shop’s Anthony...
Read Moreby Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →
Since 2005, this has been Smart City Consulting’s blog with the aim of connecting the dots and providing perspective on issues and policies shaping Memphis. Editor and primary author is Tom Jones, columnist, author of two books, and consultant on public policy. Smart City Memphis was called one of the most intriguing blogs in the U.S. by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change; The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal wrote that “Smart City Memphis provides some of the most well-thought-out thinking about Memphis’ past, present, and future you’ll find anywhere,” and the Memphis Flyer said: “This incredibly well-written blog sets out to solves the city’s ills – from the mayor to MATA – with out-of-the-box thinking, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ideas. If you have questions, submissions, or ideas for posts, please email Tom Jones, at tjones@smartcityconsulting.com.