Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
All tagged economic development
Kennedy Smith of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance on strategies city leaders can use right now and post-pandemic to help local businesses survive.
We speak with Shari Davis (of the Participatory Budgeting Project) and Derrick Braziel (of MORTAR Cincinnati) about participatory budgeting, democratizing economic development, and much more.
Quint Studer joins the show to talk about what he sees as essential steps toward building communities that thrive.
R. John Anderson, co-founder of Incremental Development Alliance, joins the show to talk about the small developer movement, the CARES Act and its impact on small businesses right now, and what cities can do to cultivate a stronger small business ecosystem.
Kirsten Wyatt joins the show to talk about ELGL's efforts to connect people in local government.
Jeff Siegler, founder of Revitalize, or Die, talks about the importance of place, how cities can encourage effort (and discourage apathy), how we can cultivate civic pride, and much more.
It's a crossover episode! Kevin Shepherd and Monte Anderson talk affordable housing, incremental development, and more on the Chaffee Housing Report.
Small developer Monte Anderson joins the show for a second time to go a bit more in depth about his Dallas-area projects that give small-time entrepreneurs a place to make a living and build wealth for the community.
We're back with the second part of our discussion on the role of the responsible developer – with Derek and Bianca Avery, incremental developers and community builders with COIR Holdings.
This is Part 2 of our discussion on incremental development with developer Monte Anderson.
In this episode we speak with Kevin Klinkenberg, an urban designer, planner, architect, and writer on all things cities. We discuss what city leaders can learn from the messiness of cities past, why small scale development is better for our communities (and why these days it's so hard to actually do), how to balance top-down and bottom-up action, zoning recommendations for cities that want to become walkable, and more.
This is the second of a short series on city growth. Are there good ways or bad ways to grow? In this episode, we're asking: What should a city's relationship with debt look like? Are there bad debts? Are there good debts for a city to take on?
Today is a bit of a Thanksgiving grab-bag. Kevin and Jordan discuss what cities (of any size) can learn from the Amazon HQ2 contest about economic development, what the California wildfires should be telling cities about the implications of their development patterns, and whether “criticize then commit” is a philosophy city leaders can employ in citizen engagement.
