NOT from The Brightest Minds Inside Mesa City Hall
Your MesaZona blogger really hopes that Mesa Mayor John Giles gets his act together before this year's performance in the State-Of-The-City Speech on February 6, 2018. He's had the all the opportunities to learn on-the-job getting invited to Harvard and Washington, D.C under the auspices of Mike Bloomberg... It's easy to get elected, hard to perform Report June 2017
Advancing a new wave of urban competitiveness:
The role of mayors in the rise of innovation districts
Julie Wagner, Jennifer S. Vey, Steve Davies, and Nathan Storing
"Over the past year, the United States Conference of Mayors and the Brookings Institution, along with Project for Public Spaces have worked together to capture a new model of growth that is emerging in cities and the particular roles that mayors can play.
This handbook offers concrete strategies for mayors and their administrations to facilitate the rise of innovation districts—small geographic areas within cities where research universities, medical institutions, and companies cluster and connect with start-ups, accelerators, and incubators. They reflect profound market and demographic dynamics that are revaluing proximity, density, walkability, and accessibility—in other words, the natural strengths of cities. . . "
Readers of this blog might like to see how this changed and evolved from 2013 when they called themselves 'a revolution' - the geography of evolution has shifted > workers like to be in close proximity
Today, innovation is taking place where people can come together, not in isolated spaces. Innovation districts are this century's productive geography, they are both competitive places and 'cool spaces' and they will transform your city and metropolis. From The Metropolitan Revolution iPad app, which accompanies the new book by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley. Video narrated by Bruce Katz. Download the iPad app: http://metrorevolution.org/app
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