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The National League of Cities awarded Nashville a 2017 Equitable Development Fellowship. Music City is one of six cities that will receive technical assistance from the Washington, D.C.-based [...]

After a declining first decade of this millennium, Grand Rapids, Michigan, has turned the corner on population growth and development. The city has grown by 4.5 percent this decade, compared to a [...]

Since its founding, the city of Nashville has constantly reinvented itself — first as a hub for trade, then as a shipping power, and finally as a center for the music, healthcare, and food [...]

In the late 1960s, when Burt Bacharach wrote the most famous song about San Jose, the small city was a sleepy source of nostalgia for someone living in fast-paced LA. Now San Jose is the nation’s [...]

Anchorage, Alaska, describes itself “at the center of the periphery,” an apt expression for a city that is so distant from most of the US it is closer to Beijing than Washington DC. Yet with [...]

The closure of St. Elizabeths, a federal mental hospital in southeast Washington DC, left a gaping hole in the urban fabric in the 1980s. For three decades the hole remained. Public confidence [...]

Kevin Johns is the Economic Development Director for the City of Austin. This week I had the opportunity to talk to Kevin about Austin’s Einstein Challenge, an innovative program looking to lift [...]

For NLC’s Equitable Economic Development (EED) Fellowship Program, June 5-8 were very special dates. After a year providing extensive technical assistance to the inaugural cohort cities of [...]

The 2017 ULI Fall Meeting was an outstanding event and I found it to be very rewarding and informative as a public official. I currently serve as the Director of the City of Memphis Division of [...]

I have worked for the City of Houston for the past 10 years and I have been invited to numerous ULI luncheons which my colleagues and I respectfully decline to go to. The usual response for [...]