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Articles by Jess Zimbabwe
School of Architecture
Redesigning Cities Redesigning Cities How should existing cities, their systems and policies, be redesigned to address 21st Century challenges? REDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Institute of Technology is a series of presentations + conversations between leading urbanists that address 21st Century urban challenges: social capital, equity, climate change, outdated infrastructure, disruptive technologies, and money.
Jess Zimbabwe and the Rose Center: Building better urban leadership leads to better cities
Cities are amazing places, but cities are also full of bad things that nobody wants. So how do you make cities better? Residents have certain interests while private developers may have completely different ones. Governments have limited time in which to try to balance many competing demands. This can lead to a brutal tug of war and in the worst case, no one wins. But urban development doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game.
The Re-Emergence of Neighborhoods
For the past five years, NLC’s Center for City Solutions has analyzed hundreds of mayors’ state of the city addresses. In this research, we examine which priorities mayors are focusing on and how their priorities change over time in response to social, economic and political trends. The (SOTC) report covers a sample of 160 mayoral speeches delivered between January and April 2018.
Public Spaces and Local Democracy
On Tuesday, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to exact revenge on the city of Memphis—approving a measure to withhold $250,000 in funding that had been appropriated for the city’s bicentennial anniversary celebration.
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