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Peter Kageyama on the Florida Boomer Lifestyle Conference

CCP partner Peter Kageyama will speak at this year’s Florida Boomer Lifestyle Conference on the changing economy and its impact on the nature of work and community.

Gallup Global Wellbeing Survey

Gallup’s Global Wellbeing Survey shows how asymmetric wealth and development is on a worldwide level. The interactive map is particularly useful.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126977/Global-WellBeing-Surveys-Find-Nations-Worlds-Apart.aspx

City Love – Pecha Kucha

Renewing Our Love Affair With Our Cities – Pecha Kucha from Peter Kageyama on Vimeo.
Peter Kageyama, founder of the Creative Cities Summit on how to renew our love affair with our cities cities. From Pecha Kucha Night Tampa Bay, January 15, 2010.

Trends – “Urbany”

Trendwatching.com has named “Urbany” a top ten trend of 2010. As Trendwatching puts it, “Urban culture is the culture. Extreme urbanization, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and far beyond will lead to more sophisticated and demanding consumers around the world.” And demanding consumers lead to innovation.
http://trendwatching.com/briefing/#urbany

The Rise of the City-State?

In this excerpt of Paul Starobin’s new book, After America, he makes an interesting case for the rise of city-states in the 21st century. If global talent flows to places where it is valued most, the world’s 40 mega-regions will continue to grow and prosper in the 21st century while most other communities stagnate, loss [...]

Shift Happens

We live in an “exponential economy.” What does that mean? Find out here.

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Richard Florida @ Creative Cities Summit 2.0

Dr. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City speaks at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, October 2008. He asks the fundamental question of “what makes a great city” as well as discussing the impact of the financial crisis on our communities.
Part 1

Part 2

It’s All About Talent

From Peter’s Guest Blogging for Metromode, the Issue Media Publication for Southeast Michigan:
9/19/08
It’s All About Talent
Everyone is talking about talent attraction and retention. Every city and economic development organization in the country now has a plan of some kind to attract and retain talent. Every city complains about losing talent to some particular city (I hear about [...]

Interview with G. Pascal Zachary

G. Pascal Zachary, journalist and author, discusses his new book, Married to Africa.

Tampa Bay Media Talk – Who’s Your City

Peter Kageyama is a guest on Tampa Bay Media Talk discussing Richard Florida’s new book, Who’s Your City and his upcoming appearance at the Tampa Bay Partnership’s Regional Leadership conference.