New Ways to Evaluate Impact
Human-centered design and systems thinking can help evaluate social impact in a global context.
Urban Development - Articles
Social innovations that improve the health of cities (more)
Helping Cities Remain Strong
A $100 million foundation initiative aims to foster urban resilience in the face of disaster.
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Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
What Are We Doing About Gun Violence?
Part one of a seven-part series of interviews with and commentary by leaders working to reduce gun violence in the United States.
Five Essentials of Strategic Planning
A culture of strategic planning can provide a framework for aligning priorities, making decisions, allocating resources, and measuring impact.
Bold Steps in Boise
The Trey McIntyre Project, an Idaho-based dance troupe, is choreographing a novel way to manage a leading-edge arts organization.
Review
Manifest Density
Investment in "hyperdense" cities is, according to one writer, the key to solving many problems that afflict US society.
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Confronting Suburban Poverty in America
Confronting Suburban Poverty in America offers a new look at American poverty as well as recommendations for combating it.
Poverty’s New Home
Poverty is growing in US suburbs, but for service providers, does it matter where the poor live?
Environmentally Friendly Housing for the Masses
Existing base-of-the-pyramid construction models must change.