Author: Smart City Memphis

Public space is important in both cities and in buildings. We’ll talk to two people who are attempting to re-imagine those public spaces both inside and out. Antony Wood is the Executive Director of the Council on Tall...

It’s probably just us, but it’s hard for us to imagine that if it had been urban Memphis rather than Germantown that Attorney General Bill Gibbons would have been as cavalier about enforcing campaign laws.Mix in a name like...

We picked up our Memphis Flyer tonight, and to follow up today’s post about foreclosures, we recommend this week’s cover story by the always insightful Mary Cashiola, Home Economics.

President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the urban agenda that he proposed during his campaign, promises to create a White House Office of Urban Policy, and it can’t come too soon.We have written often about the neglect,...

At the risk of echoing our president-elect’s wife, we’ve never been prouder of our country.It’s just that simple.While it remains to be seen if the reality of Barack Obama will be as a transformational figure and not just a...

Hope springs eternal, but Hope VI regularly has to fight for its life, not to mention its credibility.It’s a curious dilemma for a federal program that has pumped $122 million into Memphis to end the warehousing of poor families...

In the aerotropolis sweepstakes, Detroit is the first city to take flight.There, the Detroit Region Aerotropolis has used the nation’s latest economic development big idea as a vehicle for regionalism, bringing together...

Both Barack Obama and John McCain embrace the idea of publicly financed, independently run charter schools as a way to reform the education system. But what is a charter school, and how do they differ from traditional public...

Despite predictions of a Constitutional crisis in county government if we don’t pass the two charter amendments, we still vote no.Meanwhile, on IRV, we vote yes.First, the county charter amendments. There are just too many...

Continued from the previous posting:All of this concern that $2 billion isn’t enough for roadbuilders must seem extremely misplaced to officials in higher education, like our university president Dr. Raines, who are making...