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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Replay: The Decline of Civic Leadership Culture
“Cleveland’s leadership has no apparent theory of change. Overwhelmingly, the strategy is now driven by individual projects. These projects, pushed by the real estate interests that dominate the board of the Greater ...
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Hume: Markham's bold proposal is suburbia's salvation
The land-use rebellion now unfolding in Markham is another skirmish in the war against the development industry.
At stake is who controls growth – government or ...
I was challenged by Mark Boscariol of Scaledown in another blog to write what I would do with $50 million infrastructure dollars, if not roads and sewers, then what? I replied in ...
Way back in June of 2008, when ScaleDown partnered with Artcite for our roundtable discussion on the effects of urban sprawl, panelist Veronika Mogyrody watered the seed that was planted to rebrand the city of ...
As I see the economy take blow after ferocious blow I cannot help but think “how long can this last?” Throughout history, local and otherwise, we have always found a way to persevere....
I finally can start contributing to the downtown core in a more meaningful way. Over the past few years, bureaucracy and organization took precedent over nuts and bolts improvements. Now all of that is important and I commend the entire board for working on that as it ...
So, Windsor has been asked by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to submit a list of "Shovel-Ready" infrastructure projects they want to receive funding for.
Seeing as we are suffering from the highest unemployment rate in ...
“We will probably be judged not for the monuments we build, but by those which we've destroyed.”
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