Making The Most From The Bicentennial’s New Century of Soul
The Memphis Bicentennial has one of those marketing hooks – A New Century of Soul – that is more suggestive than precise, more open to interpretation than...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 29, 2019 | Economic Development, Poverty
The Memphis Bicentennial has one of those marketing hooks – A New Century of Soul – that is more suggestive than precise, more open to interpretation than...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 25, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Economic Development, Neighborhoods, Shelby County government
Finally, something good came out of Graceland’s ham-handed and inept approach to negotiating with City Hall – Memphis’ first Community Benefits Agreement. While it’s...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 22, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Downtown Revitalization, Livability, Parks and Greening, Tennessee Legislature
It was good news last week when Governor Bill Lee’s proposed budget included funding to support the transformation of Tennessee’s western gateway but...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 19, 2019 | Data Points, Economic Development
The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities index is an objective look at the factors of successful economic growth using outcomes-based metrics such as job...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 17, 2019 | Data Points, Economic Development, Poverty
This blog post from December, 2018, is published in this month’s Mark Fleischer’s excellent Storyboard Memphis newspaper To understand the ugly face of institutional...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 15, 2019 | Downtown Revitalization, Livability, Planning and Urban Design
Cities participating in the three-year Reimagining the Civic Commons program funded by the nation’s most prominent national foundations recently...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Neighborhood Preservation Inc. and Pigeon Roost media will co-host a screening of Chapter One from their upcoming documentary about the housing foreclosure crisis in Memphis from 6 to 8 pm on Monday, April 15, at the CMPLX, 2234...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 10, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Planning and Urban Design
In light of continuing concerns about gentrification in connection with Memphis 3.0, we are reposting this commentary from April 24, 2016: Memphis should be so lucky as to...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 8, 2019 | Economic Development
By David Ciscel, Professor Emeritus in Economics, University of Memphis: Recently, Smart City Memphis published several lists of peer cities. I was particularly interested in the list in the...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 4, 2019 | Leadership
While most of the country celebrates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for those of us who were in Memphis when he was murdered, this is the day soaked...
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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 at Memphis magazine, author of two books and a museum exhibition, and consultant on public policy and strategic planning. 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: “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.