Author: Smart City Memphis

Exploring what it means to be a Creative City has been a regular topic on Smart City. This week we’ll visit with Lynda Dorrington who is leading her own creative city movement in Perth, an isolated city on the west coast...

In pursuing that elusive quality – vibrancy – that regularly seems at the heart of successful cities, Memphis, like many mid-sized cities, searches often for the magic of big projects and major public investments.The irony is...

Art Wolff is a pain in the neck.As he once put it, he set out to be one and he’s gotten awfully good at it.For almost 35 years, he has upbraided mayors, disabused city and county engineers of any notion that they are godlike and...

We’re guest blogging this week on CEOs For Cities’ blog and putting the posts here as well:Memphis Tourism Foundation is launching its first website in a few days and along with it, a new approach to improving the...

We’re guest blogging this week on CEOs For Cities’ blog and putting the posts here as well:Dr. Aaron Shafer represents the talent that so many cities are concentrated on attracting, but for now, Memphis has him.He’s...

In response to Friday’s post about the potential takeover by Governor Phil Bredesen of 17 city schools, we were asked for a list of the schools. Here it is: Airways Middle, Carver High, Cypress Middle, East High, Fairley...

From Carol Coletta’s CEOs For Cities’ blog:This is fun. Get your neighborhood’s walkability score here. Just log in with your address. Super simple.My current Chicago neighborhood scores a 67 out of 100 (no...

Kip Bergstrom, executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, is one of the smartest people we know, and no one bears more listening to.“Leadership is about telling stories,” he said to this year’s class of...

More and more, there’s a growing question about whether the members of the Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners are playing Nero to the district’s Rome whose smoke doesn’t even seem to be noticed by them.Bereft of...

What would you be willing to do to put 2.6 billion extra dollars into your local economy each year? Would you be willing to drive 4 fewer miles a day?That’s what Portlanders are doing, and it’s paying big dividends...