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Fast Company
May 2009
Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Malmo, Sweden After recession nearly wiped out Malmo's industrial base in the 1980s, the city has had a chance to start over, creating eco-friendly neighborhoods of transformed tenements and old shipyards.   |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: San Francisco Bank on San Francisco |
Fast Company
May 2009
Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Philadelphia Philadelphia's Mortgage Foreclosure Protection Program uses door-to-door outreach, free counseling, and meetings between those on the brink of losing their homes and their mortgage lenders to keep people in their houses. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Vancouver, British Columbia The host of the 2010 Winter Games is going for green, using its big moment as a chance to catalyze change. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Ellen McGirt |
Fast Cities: Tucson Mayor Robert E. Walkup has turned Tucson into a place where health and public safety aren't an afterthought, but an integral part of municipal planning. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Denver The Mile-High City's Five by Five program opens the doors of Denver's cultural institutions to some of its youngest and poorest residents. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Chicago Chicago's Smart Card seems almost too simple: one card that gives access to the trains, buses, and a local car-sharing program. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Houston Despite a weakening real-estate market, development around Houston's Discovery Green is still strong. And, of course, the park is appropriately earth-loving, recycling its water and waste and drawing 100% of its power from renewable sources. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Fast Cities: New Orleans The recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans has unleashed a new generation of social entrepreneurs. A sterling example is the Broadmoor Improvement Association. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Taipei, Taiwan Taipei is striving to achieve "zero landfill, total recycling" by 2010, 30 years ahead of the UN's trash targets. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Ellen McGirt |
Fast Cities: New York In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has built the most successful local counterterrorism unit in the U.S. and perhaps the world. |
U.S. Banker
August 2010 |
Start Fresh One way Rust Belt cities like Detroit and Buffalo are dealing with an oversupply of housing stock is by demolishing blocks of vacant homes in blighted neighborhoods. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Mike Hofman |
Urban Outfitters Big-city mayors are eager to make revivified inner cities a part of their legacies... Cleveland... Denver... Chicago... Austin... |
BusinessWeek
September 20, 2004
Christopher Palmeri |
A New Frontier For Suburban Builders Land scarcity has tract developers tackling blighted urban properties. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 15, 2012
Lisa Chase |
Funding the Design of Livable Cities As a burgeoning global population migrates to the world's urban centers, it's crucial to design livable cities that function with scarce natural resources. The critical connection between real estate financing and innovative design in the built environment is discussed. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Creative Destruction in the Housing Market Rebuilding real estate, one demolition at a time. |
Metropolis
December 2006
Karrie Jacobs |
Revenge of the Small Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver are creating strategies to encourage the development of modest, more affordable houses. |
