Illuminating Philadelphia's Leaders

GLUE is a multi-media documentary, networking, and creative research effort addressing the decline of post-industrial cities.

Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture

The Smart Growth Leadership Institute introduces the Smart Growth Implementation Toolkit.

Joie de Vivre has built a reputation for creating one of the most unique collections of lifestyle businesses in the U.S--from luxury campgrounds to Japanese communal baths to boutique motels.

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics.

Travel Oregon is the official travel guide to planning an Oregon vacation. Whether your Oregon travel destination is Portland Metro, Mt. Hood or the Oregon Coast, start your trip here!

Majors learn how to ask research questions about urban issues, what kinds of information and methods are available to address these questions, and gain experience with statistical analysis.

The International Downtown Association is a world leader of and champion for vital and livable urban centers. Through its network of committed individuals, its rich body of knowledge, and its unique capacity to nurture community-building partnerships, IDA is a guiding force in creating healthy and dynamic centers that anchor the well being of towns, cities and regions of the world

The Gateway Quarter is a mix of newly constructed and renovated condominiums located on and around 12th and Vine in downtown Cincinnati.

The Sydney Olympic Park encourages a broad range of commercial, residential, recreational, leisure and public uses that utilize the available facilities and infrastructure and add to the unique qualities of the Park for visitors, workers and residents.

Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC) advocates for a superior, equitable and sustainable park and recreation system. NPC provides leadership and support to park users through community-driven stewardship, education, planning and research.

Futurefarmers is a group of practitioners aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us.

Free Soil is an international hybrid collaboration of artists, activists, researchers and gardeners who take a participatory role in the transformation of our environment.

GoLoco is a service that helps people quickly arrange to share rides between friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

Our interdisciplinary teams observe, analyze and report on strategic, technological, and organizational developments in a broad range of industries and examine the implications for society and the global economy.

Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) strives to promote more effective educational practices, programs, and policies for disadvantaged children and youth by generating, publishing, and disseminating our and others’ research.

The Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of Technology is an international leader in teaching systemic, human-centered design.

CAR is an independent consultancy providing specialist advice and research for the construction industry, design professions and policy-making institutions.

The U.S. Green Building Council's core purpose is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.

Tenacity Group provides mortgage services, settlement resources, and complete residential sales assistance for your real estate investment or home buying plan.

Serving as a catalyst for progress, the Council tries to enhance the nation's Capital by focusing the administrative and creative talents of Washington's leaders on major problems and opportunities that are facing the City.

Read Mayor Coody's Alterantive Transportation and Trail Plan for Fayetteville (PDF format).

Suzanne Morse, President of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, blogs on effective strategies, new initiatives, funding opportunities, and nationwide events that are affecting communities.

Collegia's specific area of expertise is Connecting Colleges & Communities.

Founded in 1968, The Family Institute is the Midwest's oldest and largest organization devoted to family therapy, clinical research and the education of family therapists.

The Sarasota International Design Summit, hosted by the Ringling School of Art & Design, will explore design's transformational impact on people, places and products today.

MAYA is a design consultancy and technology research lab.

Michigan Future’s mission is to be a source of new ideas on how Michigan's people, enterprises and communities can succeed in the Information Age

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in ensuring educational equity and excellence for all children.

A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) AUGUST 7-13, 2006

Plug-In Partners is a national grass-roots initiative to demonstrate to automakers that a market for flexible-fuel Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) exists today.

AmericaSpeaks develops innovative deliberative tools that work for both citizens and decision makers. These tools give citizens an opportunity to have a strong voice in public decision making within the increasingly short timeframes required of decision makers.

C+PG provides a variety of consulting services including cultural planning, evaluation and benchmarking, assessment, building organizational capacity, defining best practices, and research in the nonprofit sector.

A non-profit environmental education organization in Chicago that has led the way in demonstrating innovative techniques for recycling and reusing materials.

A multifaceted planning process, endorsed by the Louisiana Recovery Authority, to develop a sustainable, long-term vision for South Louisiana in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Committed to ensuring that the capital city remains clean, safe and bustling. Today, this organization is working to leverage this identity and the existing potential into new development projects and activities.

The goal of the Bruner Loeb Forum is to advance the thinking on a wide variety of challenges facing our cities, and to make the learning and creative thinking inherent in Rudy Bruner Award winners and in the work of Loeb fellows available to practitioners and policy makers across the country.

TreePeople's mission is to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest - educating, training and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve the neighborhoods in which they live, learn, work and play.

A one-year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults 18-24, with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits and a paid corporate apprenticeship.

Jumpstart recruits and trains college students and adults to deliver an innovative early education program via yearlong one-to-one relationships with preschool children. Corps members are paired with children from low-income backgrounds in the classroom setting and work together on language, literacy, social, and initiative skills for one year.

A leading national education initiative that uniquely mobilizes thousands of adult volunteers to help improve student achievement by teaching skill-building apprenticeships after-school.

A nonprofit affiliate of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce thatseeks to make a perceptible and lasting economic impact on the Chicagoland region by helping entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses build viable, sustainable and profitable enterprises.

A plan detailing how Seattle can become a national leader in creating a more humane, layered, beautiful and relevant transportation system.

Developed by branding expert Simon Anholt and global market research solutions provider GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), the CBI measured the brand of 30 cities around the world, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Sydney, Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

An extension of other "place-based" approaches that have been practiced for decades, such as cultural tourism, heritage tourism, ecotourism, and geotourism.

A business improvement, or special services district, supported by mandatory assessments on real property and governed by a privatesector board.

Cities that attract young, college-educated workers are positioned for success. Find out why in this new study from CEOs for Cities by economist Joe Cortright, Impresa Consulting.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation is dedicated to advancing public interest and education in architecture and related design.

Committed to enriching the lives of adolescents and helping them achieve a healthy, productive future free of early pregnancy.

The Gateway to College program at Portland Community College serves at-risk youth, 16 to 20 years old, who have dropped out of school. It gives students the opportunity to earn a high school diploma while achieving college success.

The Chicago Arts District is an approximately 12 square block area on Chicago's near Southwest side. The neighborhood has provided a home and work space for hundreds of artists each year, over the past four decades.

Since 1915, The Chicago Community Trust has helped Chicago-area residents build a better life for the people of Cook County and greater Chicago.

An unprecedented online global conversation about what matters most to you.

A group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live.

The oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership and governance.

The official nonpartisan organization of the nation's 1183 U.S. cities with populations of 30,000 or more.

The Governors Institute on Community Design will allow leaders to share innovations; deliberate tough, big picture questions; and develop cost effective solutions appropriate for their states.

The Smart Growth Leadership Institute was created by former Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening to help state and local elected, civic and business leaders design and implement effective smart growth strategies.

The Big Picture Companys mission is to catalyze vital changes in American education by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of their greater community.

A non-profit organization engaged in real estate and program development for the arts and creative sector.

A not-for-profit economic development organization promoting metropolitan Chicago. WBC markets Chicago's competitive advantages, coordinates business retention and attraction efforts, and seeks to enhance Chicago's business-friendly environment.

An organization devoted exclusively to thinking and acting strategically for the future of the region.

The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government brings timely examples of government innovation.

East Downtown Albuquerque's revitalization plans.

The Atlanta Belt Line is a 22-mile transit greenway circling downtown and midtown Atlanta. It reuses existing railroad rights-of-way as a wide linear park with streetcars, bicycle and pedestrian paths and connects over 40 diverse neighborhoods, as well as city schools, historic and cultural sites, shopping districts and public parks.

Specializing in the analysis of compact and sustainable development; mixed-income, mixed-tenure redevelopment; mixed-use urban revitalization; traditional neighborhood developments; and integrated-use master-planned communities.

A national organization comprised of city parks leaders from across the country who work together to strengthen America's city parks.

Miami's development of a new code that replaces the existing zoning ordinance, an outdated ordinance which emphasizes use and density.

Provides public policy analysis to the Texas Governor and the Legislature to use in developing and evaluating criminal and juvenile justice correctional policies.

Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project has helped over 200 communities nationwide in their own efforts to improve end-of-life care.

Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts is a new study by the Rand Corporation.

A Washington, DC-based consulting firm specializing in the economic revitalization of downtowns and the redevelopment of historic properties.

A public/private partnership created to grow the wealth and the workforce of the Greater Philadelphia Region's Innovation Economy.

A private, non-profit company chartered in 1986 to assist city and county governments and the private sector to spur economic development and the creation of great public spaces in downtown Chattanooga and along the riverfront.

A major initiative by the American Architectural Foundation aimed at transforming the way America's public schools are planned and designed.

A national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands and other natural places.

Building the economy, community and environment in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.

CDPN connects individuals and organizations putting innovative community development ideas into action. We are a network of independent thinkers and practitioners redefining the way people think of community development.

Talking Street offers a totally engaging, easy-to-use, and entertaining way to explore a variety of destinations-using everyday technologies like cell-phones and PDA's.

University City was Philadelphia's first suburb, and it remains home to distinctive, livable urban neighborhoods of wide porches, tree-lined streets, restaurants and cafes, and shops.

The internet's oldest portal site for urban planners and others interested in cities and the built environment, contains a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning and urbanism.

A program dedicated to improving the design and livability of America's cities through the efforts of their chief elected leaders, their mayors.

An information gateway to the city of Dublin, Ireland, offering a window of connection into the vibrant community, cultural, social, business and political life of Ireland's capital city.

City Mayors works for a creative, harmonious and rewarding relationship between cities, people and business.

TRENDWATCHING.COM and its 3,000+ trendspotters scan the US, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and 50 other nations & regions for hot, emerging consumer trends and related new business ideas.

Providing a local forum and home for the arts, through the maintenance of residential and work studios, galleries, and performance space.

A non-profit organization founded in 1999 to promote architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises.

A town for signers.

A city must know itself before it can sell itself. Houstonitsworthit.com was created to allow Houstonians to share with other Houstonians-and the world-why it's worth it to live in Houston, and in the process hopefully get to know ourselves better.

Optimizing the potential of the physical environment to serve human goals and aspirations.

Creates affordable homeownership and housing opportunities through innovative partnerships and initiatives that build healthy, vibrant communities across the United States.

A Washington-based, private, non-profit, and non-partisan research organization dedicated to economic vitality, environmental quality, and regional equity for Northeast and Midwest states.

The official EPA and ICMA cosponsored forum on brownfields cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse.

A partnership among leaders from New England's business, government, and cultural sectors that exists to promote the sustainable economic development of New England's creative economy.

Dallas calls itself "the city that works." Dallas is wrong. Read the report commissioned by the Dallas Morning News.

Building organizations through community.

An international conference and knowledge network which sets new agendas for design - in particular, the design agenda for information and communication technologies

Specializes in transforming abandoned buildings into lofts, combining fun and function to create hip living and working spaces.

A place where getting your idea off the ground is easier.

A firm specializing in understanding cultural trends.

A Miami ad agency hits the road to pitch the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tourism Account.

A national bipartisan alliance of mayors, corporate executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders with a mission to advance the economic competitiveness of cities.

A firm created to guide Fortune 500 companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults.

A non-partisan, non-profit, intergenerational, advocacy initiative seeking to raise awareness of the challenges we will be facing with the aging of the nation's baby boomers.

Diversity/Vancouver is an annual multimedia series exploring cultural diversity in Greater Vancouver sponsored by the Laurier Institution.

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