2009-11-09
Remixing Cities: Strategy for the City 2.0
Cities innovate when people mix and mingle, sharing and combining ideas from different vantage points and traditions. That mixing takes place on and in shared infrastructures and spaces that bring people together.
CEOs for Cities is especially grateful for the sharing of experiences and ideas by pioneering remixers in Portland, Chicago, Providence and Columbus. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Providence Mayor David Cicilline and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman generously gave us their time to provide the kind of perspective only mayors have. Special thanks to the amazing Kristin Wolff of Portland for making our first city visit so productive. Julia Stasch hosted us at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. Garry Bliss in Mayor Cicillines office coordinated our visit to Providence, where we were hosted by New Commons, Rhode Island School of Design President Roger Mandle and by Clay Rockefeller at the Steelyard. Doug Kridler made us a key part of his celebration of the Columbus Foundations landmark achievement of surpassing $1 billion in assets.
Our tour and this report would not have been possible without the cooperation and widely diverse experiences of all with whom we met.
It is our hope that one day very soon we will have many robust examples of Remixed Cities at work from which we can all learn. They will be one more key piece of evidence of the devolution of centralized power to the edges and the rising influence of cities and their citizens.
Charles Leadbeater for CEOs for Cities (Chicago IL, USA)
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