The Cost Of Institutional Racism On Memphis House Values
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 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...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 2, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Economic Development, Shelby County government
So, now, we yet again have a new regional economic development plan. Last week, the latest plan was launched in a public meeting of the Memphis & Shelby County Regional...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Apr 1, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Livability, Neighborhoods
Austin Harrison with Neighborhood Preservation Inc. publishes a monthly policy brief, highlighting issues that are important to Memphis neighborhoods and his organization’s fight against blight. We are proud to post them...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
The following post is written by Pastor DeAndre Brown, who, with his wife Vinessa, founded and operates Lifeline to Success, a nonprofit organization that has helped...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Mar 27, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Neighborhoods
For many years, we have had the penchant in this community for chasing best practices, thinking that urban solutions are as simple as transplanting...
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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.