Author: Smart City Memphis

New Orleans has always been a dichotomy. There’s always been squalor existing alongside luxury, entrenched poverty intermingled with gaudy wealth, decaying shacks just blocks from Garden District palaces, the gentility of Creole...

Is the desire to become a creative city at risk of becoming the latest brand of wishful economic thinking by city leaders?Our guests this week are exploring the potential of creative industries as viable economic development...

From CEOs For Cities blog comes a proposed bill of rights that would be a welcome aspiration for Memphis:Berkeley resident Sharon Hudson has proposed an urban bill of rights for the city as a reaction to what she sees as...

Construction has begun on the Southeast Shelby County High School, and already, Shelby County Schools is showing as much sensitivity to the environment as it does to people trying to speak at its meetings.Most of the site has...

Last week, The Commercial Appeal called the vote by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners on a conservation easement for Shelby Farms Park a “big step in preserving the park forever.”More accurately, it was one step forward...

This week on Smart City:Growing up in cities shouldn’t be difficult. Good cities have ample sidewalks, parks, unmatched cultural opportunities and plenty of places to play and explore.But according to David Driskell,...

Memphis City Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson took a major step forward Monday in pursuing the more influential role that she envisions the district playing in the redevelopment of Memphis neighborhoods and as a leader for...

There may be another reason that the Shelby County Board of Commissioners’ discussion about suing the builder of the FedExForum was closed other than the reasons given at the time: lawyer-client privilege. It may have been also...

This week on Smart City, the topic is about living the good life: What is the good life? That’s a question an upcoming exhibition organized by the Van Alen Institute will explore. Its curator Zoe Ryan is with us to talk...

Surely, Memphis Councilman Jack Sammons kicked himself this morning when he read his comments in The Commercial Appeal justifying the way tax freezes are handed out by Memphis and Shelby County Governments. If he didn’t,...