Economic Gardening


Third place coffeehouses as economic development
Third places, events and scenes oh my...
How cities can invest in cool places, and why they often don't
A treatise on building vibrant cultural quarters
Cultural Quarters: Necessary Conditions and Success Factors checklist
The four types of cultural quarters, progressively speaking
How do you know you're in a natural cultural district?
The impact of 'natural cultural districts'
The rise of design in Buenos Aires
Innovation happens at the edge of chaos
Film, music, writing, fine arts, fashion, photography, architecture, design...
'The 30 Fastest Cities to Work, Live and Play'
How a French town modernized and kept its heritage
It's the entrepreneurs, stupid! (2 of 2)
It's the entrepreneurs, stupid! (1 of 2)
Applying 'The Long Tail' to real estate (2 of 4)
The future of real estate is in 'the long tail' (1 of 4)
Universities + creative class = jobs, culture
The 'Inner City 100'
Brain drain - a visual map
'How Cities Compete In The Media Economy'
Attracting jobs with food
If there was ever one definitive graphic, this is it
Why do cities shrink and grow? Can cultural regeneration help?
Does your city ever emanate the 'innovation overload' buzz?
'Economic Development and Smart Growth'
'The Most Inventive Towns in America'
So you want to live in the next Silicon Valley car-free...
Implementing a more creative, alternative tourism
Using civic tourism to attract the creative class
Civic tourism... for residents
How to build a Silicon Valley
How does one go from creativity to jobs?
Why an entrepreneur has a hard time watching TV...
Can cities prosper 'slowly' in a fast world?
Is your city ready for the 'matriarch economy'?
Do you need $$$ to translate innovation into revenue?
How do you breed innovators in your bohemia?
Guidelines for attracting the 'young and the restless'
City centers a magnet for entrepreneurs
Where are entrepreneurs migrating to... lately?
Contemporary public markets instead of Wal-marts?
The modern businessperson - the 'minipreneur'
Businesses grow in cities, decline outside of it
Branding a city (like Chicago)
Manhattan losing its edge to neighbors?
Where are the top women business builders living?
Forbes' best place to work: Boise
To grow a 'forest', start with one 'good tree'
Outsourcing IT jobs to... college towns?
Learning the economic value of authenticity from Argentina
Solution to a weak dollar?
Local businesses give 70% more back to you than chains
The top entrepreneurial small city in the U.S. in 2003 is...
"Pistons a model worth duplicating"
Merging the "EDS" with a CoolTown
An "EDS" entrepreneurial community in action
The Entrepreneurial League System®
Entrepreneurs can learn a lot from minor league baseball
Is there a demand for live-work communities?
CoolTown Resource: Fast Company magazine
Q&A: How do you attract the anchor R & D tenants?
Pennsylvania - Far from supporting CoolTowns (so far)
Higher density = More jobs per capita?
In the news: Diverse leadership = jobs?
In the news: Seattle vs. Cleveland: And the winner is...
Investing in 'Entrepreneur Villages'
Gazelles + Economic Gardening = Prosperity
Some rather hip mayors...
Why are entrepreneurs important to cities?
Ah, to be an entrepreneur
The CoolTown 'workplace resort village'
Investing in local retail
Buying in your local community
Do businesses believe in CoolTowns?
Got Talent?
Investing in comeback cities
Jobs follow talent, not vice versa
The Experience Economy
Investing in a local economy
CoolTown guilds
Communities of Commerce
Can a CoolTown help create jobs?
When everyone else is on their morning commute...
Distance learning will help the small to trump the big
Want a prosperous town fast?