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Will Bike-Sharing Programs Kill More People?
Later this National Bike Month, Citi Bike will debut in New York City. The ambitious bike-sharing program will launch with 6,000 three-speeders spread across 300 docking stations, numbers that will...
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Portland Is Dying
What does a dying city look like? Brains are draining. The population is shrinking or aging, or both. Vibrant, creative class cool Portland is the antithesis of dying. Yesterday, journalist Annalyn...
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Migration Economies and Portland
Migrants moving into a region stimulate economic growth. Newcomers demand more housing and local services, to name a few ways the inbound impact the economy. Over the course of the 20th century, the...
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Geography of Aspiration
Places have ambition. In this urban hierarchy, you aim to be New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco. In the part of the Rust Belt west of the Cuyahoga River, Chicago is the city of dreams. In any...
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Fatal Talent Attraction
Attract talent or die. That’s the one imperative of the zero-sum Creative Class game. Another run at Cool Cities in Michigan: David Egner, president of the Hudson-Webber Foundation and executive...
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Madison’s Portland Problem
By most accounts, including my own, Madison is a thriving metro. As a big college town with a major research university, the capital city of Wisconsin should be a Creative Class star. When Richard...
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Portland 2.0: Weaving Myths of Urban Nationalism
At TechfestNW, Alan Weber (founding editor of Fast Company magazine) gave a rousing keynote speech laying out a bold vision for Portland’s (Oregon) future. In order to inspire a certain future, one...
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Portland Is Dying, Revisited
"It's the birth rate, stupid." That's how I ended my last post. How could London be dying if its population is growing? I don't think London is dying. But many contend a place that loses more people...
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At the end of 2012, Julie Keefe was a self-described community artist whose latest exhibit was in her chiropractor’s office when outgoing Portland, Oregon, mayor Sam Adams named her the city’s creative...
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