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
Florida Tourism – A Double Edged Sword
Tourism has long been the golden goose in Florida but it is also a double-edged sword. We have no state income tax in large part due to the sales tax revenue that tourism provides. When the tourists come, the coffers fill and all is well. When we have downturns in the economy or other disruptions [...]
“K Week”
The University of Kentucky does a 9 day intro and orientation for incoming students (5000 freshmen and transfers). Now in its third year, activities range from tours, parties, games, lots of food, bus tours, dances, comedy, business fairs, etc.
This year they have added a summer reading requirement for all incoming students of James McBride’s The [...]
GCECS 2009 – Philadelphia
Peter Kageyama & Creative Cities Productions is part of the planning and development team for the second Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit, happening October 5-6, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA.
The Summit is a two-day conference which promises to embrace the same values it champions: innovation, creativity, collaboration, shared learning, technology and open source thinking. The Summit [...]
Creative Places + Spaces: The Collaborative City
Peter Kageyama is the Associate Producer of this year’s CP+S event in Toronto, Canada, October 28-30, 2009.
Creative Places + Spaces is a multi-media, interactive, art-infused experience designed to inspire, empower, and connect thinkers, policymakers and practitioners working to build vibrant, dynamic, sustainable and creative places. During Creative Places + Spaces: The Collaborative City delegates and [...]
Image of the Week – Dublin 7/25/09
7/25/09
This week’s image comes from Dublin, Ireland.
Street Vacuum Cleaner – Temple Bar, Dublin
In Temple Bar, someone has to clean up. And this little pull device easily moves through the tight streets of Temple Bar, Dublin’s entertainment district. Cities building streets today say that everything has to be big enough to accommodate the huge emergency and [...]
Image of the Week – Google 7/10/09
Today, July 10th, is Nikola Tesla’s birthday.  Born in 1856, Tesla was (according to Wikipedia)  “an inventor and a mechanical  and elecrtical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity, a man who “shed light over the face of Earth,” and is best known for his many revolutionary developments [...]
Shift Happens
We live in an “exponential economy.” What does that mean? Find out here.
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CIDA International
CCP is engaged with CIDA, the Creative Industries Development Agency in the UK, on an ongoing project that is developing innovation practices for creative industries and traditional businesses. Â Funded by the European Union as part of their emphasis on innovation, the project brought Peter Kageyama and colleague Michelle Malott to the UK for the summer [...]
Thinking Creatively About Uncreative Things – Parking
From Peter’s Guest Blogging for Metromode, the Issue Media Publication for Southeast Michigan:
9/24/08
Thinking Creatively about Uncreative Things – Parking
Parking is a problem in every city. Or is it? Does the city have a parking problem or a parking expectation problem? We all want to park next to our destination. Every merchant says they want people to be [...]
