Intel and the Slow Culture Reset
Although startups are a good way to change norms, there are examples of existing organizations successfully morphing and resetting culture. In the corporate world, Intel, is an example. Alexis Madrigal’s latest piece in the Atlantic …
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Civic Startups: Lessons from Shenzhen
Shenzhen can be described as a civic startup and more specifically, an example of a charter city. On these metrics as well as several others it can be considered a success. As leaders think about …
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UP Links — 15 May 2013
The Invisible City But what is it exactly that we are glimpsing? What makes a great city a city is not its buildings and streets—its physical infrastructure—or even the patterns of people in public spaces. …
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Instagram and Changing the Rules
Leaders who make sudden changes to the rules may encounter a backlash from their communities. The problem arises when a community’s dominant social norms do not align with the change the leadership wishes to pursue. …
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Urban Land Magazine Reviews Planet of Cities
David Godschalk reviews Planet of Cities in the latest edition of Urban Land, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute. Planet of Cities sets an ambitious agenda—nothing less than formulating evidence-based rules for managing the worldwide …
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UP Links — 09 May 2013
Martin Wolf on Germany Exporting Its Model Germany is reshaping the European economy in its own image. It is using its position as the largest economy and dominant creditor country to turn members of the eurozone …
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Andrew Haughwout on Measuring and Interpreting Urban Land Values
Thanks to Andrew Haughwout from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for leading this week’s brown bag discussion on measuring and interpreting urban land values. Haughwout’s research uses the COMPS dataset from the CoStar …
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Stakes in the Ground
Joan Clos, executive director of UN-HABITAT and former mayor of Barcelona, champions the work of the Solly Angel of the NYU Stern Urbanization Project in a recent Atlantic Cities post. Rapidly growing cities in the …
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Region-Based Visas in the Atlantic Cities Blog
Sean Rust and I make the case for region-based visas over at the Atlantic Cities blog: America’s cities are the engines of its growth. Though the immigration bill before Congress would help cities by increasing …
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