Conscious Communities

He calls it recognizing his spaces between spaces. While most consider the building as the most important element of architecture, Jan Gehl...

Santa Fe was named the second best place in the United States for artists and creatives by Sperling's Best Places and Businessweek.com o...

This story from Kansas City might interest you if your community is trying to retain artists in revitalizing areas seeing property tax incre...

Hot Springs, Arkansas is an interesting place with an interesting history. Its highlight is Hot Springs National Park, but it can also claim...

Steve Woodall of Cherokee Nation asked me what I meant by "conscious" communities. His question was timely and made me think. Here...

Legend has it, the name Tahlequah was chosen for the new homeland of the Cherokee Tribe upon their arrival from Georgia on the "Trail o...

More communities are working to grow in a smart manner; that is to grow in a high quality and balanced way. It is possible to do this. A new...

The world of local government finance has seen better days, to say the least. I find communities across the country are struggling to make e...

For thousands of years the vast mineral wealth of Northern Ontario lay underground undiscovered. Mother Nature gave up some of those riches...

There have been many campaigns to promote Louisville over the years, but this is the first effort to consider the Louisville brand in its en...

Maricopa County, Ariz., gained 696,000 residents between 2000 and 2006, the largest numerical increase of the nation’s 3,141 counties, accor...

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Educational attainment is a major factor driving the growth of high skilled and knowledge-based jobs in communities. This table shows all U....

Oberlin College , founded in 1833, is an independent coeducational institution. It comprises two divisions, the College of Arts and Sciences...

Smaller City Rankings 1 Burlington-South Burlington, VT 2 Ithaca, NY 3 Corvallis, OR 4 Springfield, MA 5 Wenatchee, WA 6 Charlottesvill...

The Pew Partnership for Civic Change's Smart Communities Blog listed Conscious Communities as one of the most engaging blogs out there....

Most wealthy U.S. communities with populations in the 10,000 to 50,000 range. (Click table to enlarge it.)

As many of you know, I have been doing research on and speaking about economic development leadership issues over the past couple years. If ...

Boise is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Idaho. Boise was given its name after French-Canadian trappers first explor...

Because of my work in Richmond, Indiana , I have gotten to know Earlham College better. This is a "conscious institution" that imp...